lot. i think you re dealing with some guys that are moving enough. at chicago s cook county jail, investigators have recruited a new informant nicknamed elvis. so far, he s given up the names of a half dozen crack and heroin dealers on the mannheim strip. now it s time to share them with police officers building cases there. all of these guys you gave us, whatever you want, they come and give it to you? yeah. yeah. all of them have everything? any one of them. investigator sal maura and his partner, an undercover narc, consider putting elvis to work on the street. what s the most you usually can get from somebody at one time? what s the most you score? depends on what dealer. our main concern is that his connections know that he got arrested. he seems to think he says it shouldn t matter, but it usually does.
fast on the mannheim strip and that his informant will face a life or death decision. when authorities finally take down all 24 targets, many on the mannheim strip will put two and two together and realize that jefferson set them up. i ve already talked to him about it and told him he would have to move after this operation s over. there s no way he could stay up here. if he stays up here, they ll kill him. will he move? i doubt it. twins. i didn t see them coming. i have obligations. cute obligations, but obligations.
they re jumping on the opportunity. walls spent three years as a patrol officer before joining the gangs unit. the mannheim strip frustrated him even then. the residents of the area would complain to me about the issues on mannheim, but i can only do so much. i can do traffic stops. there were times when i would have binoculars and i would be watching certain houses, certain motels, you know, doing my own quote unquote, narcotics investigations even in patrol. i figured that eventually i would have opportunity to eventually do something up there. then this year i was fortunate, they have given us opportunity to branch out and to do something different. something has to be done. you got good hard-working people in these communities up there and their kids are walking down the street past prostitutes and drug dealers every day.
they already had in play. so if you can go outside of that box, then we really don t need you. he s of no use to anybody. we re not trying to screw you, understand what i m saying? you need something, you call, all right? that s keeping it real, all right? most all the arrests were for felony charges. it was a combination of the narcotics arrests, gun arrests, prostitution arrests. some of the prostitution arrests would be misdemeanors but the narcotics were all felonies as were the guns. on the heels of the room service raids, the police call in the local press to send a message to the public, and a warning to the bad guys on the mannheim strip. this is just a small tip of the iceberg. we re going to have to be up here just diligent like every day, all day, 24 hours. because their operation is a 24 hour operation that they have that s going on here. we have no delusions that the gangs and the like are going to vanish, the people involved with this are going away.
there s just no doubt about it. jefferson claims his motive is more personal than monetary. a close friend of his od ed on heroin. he says he wants to drive the heroin dealers off the mannheim strip. all right, guys. i just placed a call to tiffany. he ordered four dime bags of heroin. tonight, walls will conduct surveillance while jefferson and an undercover narc make a buy. when they get to the end, they re going to call her and have her come outside. all right, guys. be advised i just talked to the uc, the ci talked to the target. she said she ll be down with the product in like five minutes. she s on her way downstairs now. it s a busy night and there s a line of customers. jefferson scores a good deal and sets up another for the coming week. walls knows that word travels