Cartel figures accused in plot to bring cocaine into Chicago
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Mar 11, 2021 at 9:28 pm EDT
CHICAGO Five alleged members of a Mexican drug cartel have been charged in Chicago with conspiracy to transport cocaine into the city in 2018, the U.S. attorney’s office announced Thursday.
Three of those charged are believed to be in Mexico, but Louis Reyes Velez was arrested earlier this week in Cicero. Prosecutors say Velez was in Chicago in 2018 to arrange the $2.5 million cocaine shipment by the Sinaloa cartel, unware two of the people he was dealing with were working with federal law enforcement.
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