Dozen new indictments against Mexican cartels - 8/20/09 - Chicago News - abc7chicago.com »
Posted By y_soitenly 3 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsAugust 20, 2009 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- The U.S. Justice Department announced indictments against 36 members of the leading Mexican drug cartel.
Several of those suspects were arrested in Chicago this week.
The government claims much of the drugs sold on streets across the U.S. came from Chicago, a well-worn route for drugs coming into America.
The DEA says 90 percent of cocaine comes through Mexico.
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In warehouses big and small, expensive homes in the South Loop and on the Near North Side, Federal agents say they have shut down stash houses all over our area where massive amounts of drugs were being held for distribution and sale.
"We essentially traced tons of cocaine from the streets of Chicago back to the groups in Mexico who obtained that cocaine by plane, by boat, by submarine, brought it into Mexico and shipped it by two streams to a pipeline in Chicago," U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said. -
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They've arrested alleged cartel members not just in the city, but also communities like Riverside, Oak Lawn, Palos Hills, Naperville, Orland Hills and Northlake.
"We're going after these cell heads and the organization to disrupt and dismantle," DEA Special Agent in charge of the Chicago Division Gary Olenkiewicz said. -
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In Chicago, a pair of 28-year-old twin brothers named Pedro and Margarito Flores are in custody, charged with being a cartel's major distributor here.
While law enforcement in Washington and here in Chicago is heralding the indictment of 36 alleged drug distributors, the fact is not all are in custody--including the two men who allegedly run the Mexican cartel: Ismael Zambada-Garcia, known as El Mayo, and Joaquin Guzman-Loera, aka El Chapo. He's a billionaire who Forbes lists as the 701st richest man in the world. -
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These dope dealers will be out of business or in jail tomorrow!
Mexico will catch these guys and fly them right to Chicago to stand trial. This is so easy... why do we even have a drug problem when we can just go bust everyone involved, from the suppliers to the users?-
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