DEA: Sinaloa Drug Cartel Invades Chicago
In Chicago, more than half a million Mexican residents have made the Little Village neighborhood their home. Little Village, known for its authentic Mexican cuisine and the annual Cinco de Mayo parade, is now home to the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The DEA states that 100,000 gang members are trafficking record amounts of heroin and methamphetamine from Little Village into the south and west sides of Chicago, i.e., predominantly black neighborhoods.
Jack Riley, special agent in charge of the Chicago field division of the DEA, says, “We have to operate now as if we’re on the Mexican border.”
Just how powerful is the Sinaloa Cartel? Captured Sinaloa Cartel member Carlos Estrada confessed that several Mexican government officials from cities are on the cartel’s payroll.
