The Mexican drug cartels have established supply lines and distribution networks in more 230 American localities, and Chicago, IL is one of them where yesterday fifteen defendants with alleged ties to La Familia Michoacana were indicted as reported by Mike Robinson for the Chicago Tribune:
The people charged in indictments returned Thursday were arrested in August as part of the government's Operation Coronado, an effort launched in 2007 to break La Familia's grip on the U.S. cocaine market. * * * Drug Enforcement Agency officials have arrested more than 300 people in 19 states as part of the operation, prosecutors said.
