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In July 1980, CPD arrested 46 on charges of selling drugs at several locations, including Potomac and Rockwell. At the time, it was the "largest roundup of suspected drug peddlers in the city`s history". [7] Between 1985 and 1986, Chicago police pursued an undercover narcotics investigation of the street corner, coined "Operation Pot-Rock". [7]
"A Community that Would Not Take 'No' for an Answer: Mexican Americans, the Chicago Public Schools, and the Founding of Benito Juarez High School" Journal of Illinois History (2014) 17:1 pp 78–98. Amezcua, Mike. Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification (University of Chicago Press. 2022) Amezcua, Mike.
The Maniac Latin Disciples Nation is a Hispanic street gang in Chicago and the largest in the Latino Folks Nation alliance. Originally known as only the Latin Disciples, the gang was founded by Albert "Hitler" Hernandez and other Puerto Rican teenagers in the Humboldt Park community in approximately 1966.
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International drug routes. Panamanian motor vessel Gatun during the largest cocaine bust in US Coast Guard history (totalling 20 tons, worth over 600 million USD), off the coast of Panama. The US federal government is an opponent of the illegal drug trade; however, state laws vary greatly and in some cases contradict federal laws.
It was a new dynamic: Chinese criminal groups were laundering drug money for the Mexican cartels on an unprecedented scale. In 2015, Donovan had to turn his attention back to El Chapo after the ...
That doesn’t mean schools have stopped trying to educate kids about the risks of drug use. D.A.R.E. is still taught in thousands of communities across the country, using a revamped curriculum ...
The membership in Chicago is estimated to be 20,000 to 35,000. [29] The Chicago faction of the Latin Kings is recognized as one of the largest Hispanic street gangs in the United States after the Sureños and Norteños, as well as MS-13 and the 18th Street gang, and one of the largest street gangs based in Chicago. [30]