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Chicago police organized crime investigators in the fall of 2016 were looking at narcotics trafficking on the city’s West Side, conducting relatively low-level buy-busts. They got up on wires and were building a case, but there were no high-ranking gang members being targeted, just an increasingly complicated puzzle waiting to be put together.
What grew out of those early strands became the Wicked Town racketeering case, one of the biggest gang prosecutions in years at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse. In the end, the probe would consume thousands of hours of work from a number of different federal and local agencies, including the Chicago police, Illinois State Police, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, IRS and U.S. attorney’s office.At the center of it all were agents with the U.S.
Their efforts over the past five years culminated earlier this month when a federal jury found Donald Lee, the reputed leader of Wicked Town, and one of his top “shooters,” Torance Benson,
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