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Filed under: Fighting Cocaine Addiction

The director of the South American country's Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit says officials confiscated 580 pounds (263 kilograms) of cocaine. James Singh said Saturday that the cocaine pellets were hidden in 1,500 bags and that one person has been arrested.
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Daughter of Chicago Heights Mayor David Gonzalez busted for fighting with cops

Filed under: Fighting Cocaine Addiction

The mayor's brother, Albert Gonzalez, was convicted in 2005 of selling less than 15 grams of cocaine at a location next to the accounting firm of Gonzalez and Associates on Chicago Road, and sentenced to three years' probation, according to court …
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'My chance to do some penance'

Filed under: Fighting Cocaine Addiction

Back in the late 1980s, Cappas' name was a byword for everything that was rotten in Chicago's cocaine culture. The notorious excesses of his gun-toting crew of southwest suburban teenagers were daily fodder for the evening news. He even spat at FBI …
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