Federal and local authorities said they arrested and indicted five individuals accused of flooding Seattle’s Chinatown-International District with dangerous drugs and firearms.

A group of five men investigators call "The Jungle Shrike" are accused of using threats of "extreme violence" to control the area's drug trade, officials said.

Five men have been federally indicted over drug trafficking in Seattle's homeless encampments and in the Chinatown-International District. Tommy Pham, Donfeuy Saephan, Khampheth Keodara, Sang Tran and Theodore Nation are all charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.