The four men are scheduled to be sentenced in August and September by U.S. District Judge Jonathan Grey.

"These four defendants represent the worst of the worst in our community," Jimmy Deir, special agent in charge of the Detroit field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said in a statement. "They let their individual and collective greed guide their violent pathway straight into federal prison."

Lawyers for the men could not be reached for comment immediately Wednesday.

The jury verdicts marked the second wave of convictions in a broader criminal investigation targeting the gang.

In November, three national leaders were convicted of racketeering conspiracy and other crimes in federal court in Detroit, including alleged Michigan gang leader Kevin "Spaghetti" Fordham of Detroit.

He was charged alongside 39 other alleged enforcers, associates and high-ranking deputies and accused of orchestrating a racketeering conspiracy since 2012. The alleged conspiracy involved murder, drug dealing, extortion, stabbings and murder plots, including hits on inmates within the Michigan Department of Corrections.

Fordham is awaiting a federal prison sentence.

Most recently Seven Mile Bloods gang leader Billy Arnold was sentenced to life in prison and his case was among 20 members and associates of the gang who have been convicted during a prosecution chronicled in the serial narrative "Death by Instagram" in The Detroit News in 2018.

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