Article: Former Sosa friend-partner Chase faces drug, laundering charges.(Chicago Tribune)

CHICAGO _ Sammy Sosa said he was "in shock" Friday to learn that his childhood friend and former business partner, Bill Chase, is facing charges that he conspired to sell illegal drugs and launder money.

Drug Enforcement Administration officers arrested Chase, 61, Thursday after he allegedly picked up 1,500 Ecstasy tablets from a woman in Florida.

"That's not the person I knew when I was a kid," Sosa said of Chase. "I don't know that person now.

"I never expected something like this to happen. I have tears in my eyes."

Sosa met Chase in the Dominican Republic when he was about 10 years old. Chase, who owned a local shoe factory, took ...

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