Eleven Arrested, Charged with Distributing Kilograms of Heroin or Cocaine in DEA-Led of Investigation of Mexican-Based Drug-Trafficking Organization
CHICAGO — Two brothers driving a flatbed tow truck carrying a blue Honda Prelude exited the Kennedy Expressway at Armitage Avenue where they failed to stop at a red light about 7:20 p.m. on March 5 of this year. Chicago police officers stopped the tow truck near the intersection of Armitage and Wolcott avenues and identified the driver and his passenger. Noting that the Honda was registered to another individual, the Chicago police officers asked if the vehicle was stolen and the driver replied that to his knowledge, it was not. The officers subsequently seized the Honda and allowed the two men to depart in the tow truck. Within an hour the driver of the tow truck was on the phone with a third man, telling him repeatedly that the Honda had “broken down.” After hearing some disbelief, the driver told the third man, “No, I’m telling you that the ...the car was taken by the clowns, man.” The seizure of the Honda was not at all as coincidental as it might have seemed to the three men,...