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Article: Arrests tie drug to Mexican lab: Fentanyl-laced heroin blamed in deaths of 5 people in Chicago.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- March 2, 2007
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Byline: Jeff Coen
Mar. 2--Fentanyl produced at a clandestine Mexican lab made its way into the hands of the Mickey Cobras street gang and killed drug customers, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Seven gang members have been blamed for five deaths linked to the painkiller, which was mixed with heroin and sold at Chicago public housing complexes, authorities said.
It is the first time authorities have linked Chicago drug sales --responsible for more than 250 deaths in the city last year--to the illicit lab, which was shut down last year in Toluca. The allegations came in the form of two superseding indictments unsealed Thursday in drug conspiracy ...