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The unit. i probably made at least 100 arrests in this area alone within the last two years. between first avenue and mannheim. a lot of your main players, a lot of your big-time drug dealers, the ones that are selling the kilos, they live in the suburbs. they dont live in the city. if someone doesnt do something about whats going on up there, it will be probably just like worse than the west side of chicago eventually because whats happening is that a lot of drug dealers from the west side are ...

>> elvis confirms for police what theyve already known. with two solid street informants already in play, authorities have all the evidence they need to take down their targets. >> it comes to the point where you got to kind of wrap it up because you could keep going and going and its going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. the main thing is we want to target this particular area against as many people as we know are selling in this area, and try and get as many as we can prosecuted. obviousl...

>> they set off a diversionary device. and move in. >> police, search warrant! got stairs going up! >> within moments, police take their target and his brothers into custody. >> there were two kids that were brought out but theres a 14-year-old in there all tatted up in different kings stuff. its all over his arms, his back, his leg. hes 14 years old. its part of the lifestyle. thats how they are. >> meanwhile, investigators have captured multiple targets on mannheim. >> seven? got anything on y...

Him even then. >> the residents of the area would complain to me about the issues on mannheim. i can only do so much. i can do traffic stops. there are times i would have binoculars and watch certain houses and certain hotels. doing my own personal investigation. this year i was fortunate. theyve given us the opportunity to branch out and to do something different. >> something has to be done. we have good hard working people in these communities up there. their kids are working down the street ...

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