The FBI ended up infiltrating them and after awhile had enough to take them all down on drug charges and the locals got their town back.
Of course, that was a LONG time ago when government was usually on the side of law abiding citizens.
Did they place National advertising, citing a specific crime they wanted to charge, and offer a tool free line to do it?
(I know, we didn’t have wide spread toll free in the 70’s) But you get my point.