The arrest of Chris Baines, a local drug dealer, known by the DEA as a Traveling Vice Lord, a gang — on the West Side of Chicago, sprung a 13-month investigation, which led to the imprisonment of Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo , who was indicted in Chicago in 2009 for exported tons of drugs to the United States via ships and submarines.
It, all began on July 3, 2007, when Baines and his cousin Charles Parker sold 50 grams of heroin — less than a cup — to a government informant, who was paid $3,500 by the DEA to infiltrate his criminal organization.
Ill-advised Baines, known as “West Side,” offered to put the informant on his “team” of heroin dealers, which led to his arrest by a DEA task force of federal agents, Chicago Police Department investigators and members of other law-enforcement agencies.
While being incarcerated, Baines refused to snitch, however, one of his associates, a higher-level dealer named Michael “Fat Mike” King, agreed to cooperate with the FEDS.
So, King, who suppliers were Pedro “Peter” Flores and Margarito “Junior” Flores, identical twin brothers, alleged members of the Latin Kings, that grew up in Chicago’s Little Village, whom were El Chapo’s main connection in Chicago, which is the supply point for international distribution to Detroit; Milwaukee; Philadelphia; Washington, DC; Cincinnati and Columbus, OH; New York; Los Angeles and Vancouver, became the fall guys to this dangerous underworld of guns, gangs and drugs, by secretly recording damaging phone conversation with their supplier — the infamous Trap God, El Chapo Guzman, which became the key evidence in the 2009 federal indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago..
In early 2016, El Chapo was extradited to New York, the city of Mob-Buster, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, where he’s being held awaiting a trial set for November. by eric d.graham (Source:SunTimes/Don Diva)(bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)