Forty-nine people are facing charges after three separate investigations on the
West and South sides uncovered cash, drugs and in one instance, a weapon used in
an assault against a police officer.
The
multiple investigations targeted drug markets in the city’s Wentworth, Englewood
and Harrison Districts.
On the West Side, investigators
identified 30 wanted individuals linked to six different street gangs in the
area of Keeler to Kildare avenues and Monroe to Adams streets.
While executing search warrants, police found heroin, crack cocaine
and marijuana along with four firearms, including one that was linked to recent
West Side shootings.
In one instance, officers attempted to
stop a man on the 200 block of South Kildare Avenue to determine his
identity.
But when officers approached the man, later identified as
Pierre Blakney, 21, he aimed a pistol at police and fled on foot.
Blakney of the 3700 block of West Flournoy Street, was charged
with aggravated assault to a police officer, armed violence, unlawful use of a
weapon by a felon and manufacture and delivery of heroin within 1,000 feet of a
school or church.
A total of 25 people were charged with
drug-related offense in that investigation.
On the South
Side, investigators foiled a drug market estimated to net more than $1.1 million
annually in drug sales in the Wentworth District.
The
six-month investigation targeted the Gangster Disciple street gang in the area
of 47th Street from Michigan to Calumet avenues, police said. Twelve of 14
wanted members involved in drug sales in that area were arrested and face
drug-related charges.
In the Englewood District, detectives
targeted a drug market in the area of the 5600 to 5800 blocks of South Morgan
Avenue and Wood Street. Twelve of 14 wanted suspects were arrested
and charged with drug-related offenses in that sting
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