7ston, >> evanston is home to multimillion-dollar mansions. an idyllic suburb. >> police search warrant! >> until you look closely. >> got a guy who is right there. >> when i get out of here, i know what time it is. >> it's d-day for the sergeant and the cook county sheriff's police. together with the evanston pd, they are rounding up more than two dozen local narcotics and weapons traffickers.

>> here we go, guys. >> they spent the last five months building cases and they are about to net a very big fix. >> go! >> police search warrant! >> downstairs! downstairs! go! >> you ever work with the police or no? >> here we go, guys. go! search warrant! police search warrant! downstairs! downstairs! go!

>> whatever you find that belongs to me. >> you want us to tear the place up? >> i don't have anything. he said there was a scale with heroin. that's mine. i don't have anything else in there. anything else you find in there -- >> you got anything else on you? >> you can pat me down. i don't have anything on me. nothing. >> we are going to tear the house apart. >> i told you there was nothing in there. >> they have been waiting to nap o nab this target, an alleged heroin dealer for a long time. they couldn't do it by themselves. not in a criminal community this small. they needed an ace up their sleeve. >> we don't do much under cover with officers in town. it's almost impossible for us to get into the drug dealers because they know us and our names and faces. we have to bring in outside. >> it's been a long time, right? >> yep. i'm not going anywhere.

if i say there is nothing in there. >> you know this guy right here? >> now their trump guard. >> not a good day for you, man. you know what i'm saying zeechl a bad case here. do you know what i'm saying? that was a question. >> i heard the question. >> do you know who that is? >> no. >> the look on his face was -- i'm screwed. i love seeing the look. right now he's thinking at that moment this is drugs and this guy is a cop with all the gear on. we have a video. he knows. >> that's not all that o lander and his officers have on their target. they have seized enough illegal firepower from his house for a one-man army. >> woor ve a desert eagle to a

nine millimeter to springfield arms. >> a lot of dealers know the games. if they talk they can luszen it or even walk. we had brothers give up brothers. their own family. this is the game. >> even as police send the target and 35 other arrestees off to jail, they are only making a minor dent in a much larger problem. evanston's gang presence has been growing and so has the murder rate. in 2010, homicides rose by 600%. >> everybody heard of evanston for northwestern university. a cultural suburb by the lakefront. seldom do you hear go two or three blocks in about the drug

dealing. heroin and crack and all of that. >> it's literally two blocks. >> it's right there. >> evanston's proximity to other northern suburbs makes it a central hub for north of chicago. many are casual users experimenting with cocaine and heroin. some pay the ultimate price. heroin fatalities have more than doubled in two years. >> a new strand of heroin comes in and they don't know how to cut it or the potency of it. these kids are naive. human guinea pigs. some kid for the first time comes out from a northern affluent neighborhoods and goes to evanston and buys heroin hearing it's something cool to try and dies the first time. >> o lander and his team begin planning another major operation with the evanston pd. this time they will move higher up the food chain, taking aim at

dealer who is move bigger quantities of drugs. >> some of these guys don't sell from houses. they learned police buy from the house and they get a search warrant. they do the sales on the street. they are mobile and feel more secure because they are moving and watching. we will make our buys from there. >> we're adapt to them. >> anybody from evanston? 71st and what? there have been a lot of shootings over there. they knock the project down. where do you think the guys go to? they are making thousands of dollars to relocate to a different area and move to evanston. this is my block. no, it's not. i am going to show you whose block it is. >> evanston is not the only community with the gang activity from the city.

it's a widespread phenomenon fuelled in part by the closing of chicago's public housing projects. now gangs are sprawling. they said chief, i understand this. i know what this means. >> one of the best places to track the chicago area's 70 plus gangs, an estimated 100,000 gang members is at the jail. most detainees are held for trial as they have been charged and not convicted of crimes. investigators with the criminal intelligence unit or ciu are assisting most agencies at once through the chicago pd to the sheriff's police and sharing the latest gang intel. recently investigators began hearing about a renewed battle on the streets between two long

time rivals. the latin kings and the maniac latin disciples. >> what are you in. >> a maniac. >> it's hot over there. what kind of case you got? >> the mission. >> that's it? >> what's the background? >> a couple of misdemeanors. >> fighting with kings. >> you can't even. >> what do they call you? >> the main yacks have been at war with a lot of other big gangs and the cobras and the gangsters and the kang e kings and one of the biggest bloodiest was with themselves where they were killing each other. >> you can see my face. no shame in my game. you can shoot me. >> the maniac disciples or mlds represent the second largest street gang in chicago. founded in the 1960s, they got their start in humboldt park on the city's northwest side and branched out from there.

they must obey strict codes of conduct. no one is to cooperate with law enforcement. sand val and carpenter have seen them break that cardinal rule time and time again. they recruited many from the maniac latin disciples including this man who we call poncho to protect his identity. he has been in and out of jail several times and at one point, sandoval helped him work out a bargain on a drug possession case. >> i was in a bad situation. >> now that he's out, he will let them who did what and what's going on inside and out. >> poncho takes sandoval by surprise when he brings a fellow gang member into the fold. they will be working together as

paid informants. >> he felt for me and said i'm only doing this because i see it and me being the man i am, that's what i'm doing. i want to help out too. >> it is questionable. right now it's the beginning and they are helping each other. we will see when they have the first disagreement how it turns out. >> we get to go with. >> kos means kill on site. both are taking extra precautions like wearing disguises on camera for their safety. we are giving the partner the name left to conceal his identity. >> we found them. leave everything.

>> it's a fine line that once you cross, you can't come back. >> somebody wants to come back and they don't want to believe it. that's because there is the neighborhood you grew up in and they know you have years and years of drugs. >> for all of the talk about loyalty, paranoia runs deep in the upper ranks and for good reason. the ship is full of leaks. >> working with the police, they know people and everybody. >> poncho and lefty say it's a matter of self preservation to play both sides of the fence. they have another motive. money. both offer to help set up a member of the drug ring on the city's westside and could earn a

percentage of cash they seize as a result of the sting operation. >> about to make money. i'm going to do it. they have the nob for me. >> where is he now? >> just to be that guy and set everybody up and nobody knows where you are. they need off of that. >> police search warrant! come to the door! car insurance, it's a bit like asking if they want a big hat... ...'scuse me... ...or a big steak... ...or big hair... i think we have our answer. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. living with the pain of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis...

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you got the knowledge and the avenues and you are going to open those up for these guys. >> summertime is traditionally chicago's bloodiest season and the long time rivalry between two major latino gangs is

already flairing up again. ciu investigators have a pair of street informants from one of the gangs. the latin disciples ready to go to work for them. >> they have guys like me here and it's going to be a lot of shooting. >> besides acting as eyes and ears, these sources have offered to set up a westside drug ring in return for money. we are calling them poncho and lefty for protection. >> who can get us to this block? you could? >> yeah. >> over a kilo? >> even though black and latino gangs occupy different territories, sometimes they'll working to f there is a financial student. boncho and lefty are giving up members of a street gang they do business with. >> although they are oppositions and all about money, especially on the westside, doesn't matter what gang you are in.

>> as a first step, the police are sending an under cover officer with poncho to buy heroin from the ringleader. >> he doesn't serve a lot of people. he only serves a select clientel and our informant is one of them. >> sandoval rides with one surveillance unit while the deal goes down. >> where is he at now, jay? >> it's a good deal. you got 12. >> i introduced my friend to him and he shook his hand and called me. you got to have them with you.

that's how things are going to come off. >> with one successful buy under their belts, investigators plan to did many more in order to build a conspiracy case. they want to send out his partner, lefty, next on an under cover buy before he gets any second thoughts. >> right now there has been one guy working and the other can hold that against him. you can't always get along. it's risky. >> everything hinchs on the relationship between the two informants and within a matter of days, an unforeseen event will put that relationship to the test. >> 13 miles north another operation is in full swing. they put away their own raft of

usual suspects. >> did they have anything? >> they just had the weed. that was it. it was all bagged up. >> in nickels or dimes or whatever. he said i saw it. >> that would be a felony. >> for investigator john ridgeio, it's his fifth time assisting counterparts. >> we know how they work and they know how we work. we can have surveillance and under covers that they haven't seen before. that's why we are successful. >> he often goes under cover, playing a role to build trust with a variety of unsavory characters. >> what up, girl? it's junior. are you going to be around today? >> one of the newest targets is an ecstasy dealer who sells bills named after candy. >> i'm looking at the skittles. let me know what the paper on that is too.

cool. >> she asked me if i wanted a jar which is $100. i said a half jar. if the police buy 15 pills, wey will buy a half jar and get a search warrant. >> i was going to be up in the area and i wanted to see if i can roll through. i wanted to talk like they do. when we debrief people that we arrest, talking to them, you will know the terminology that they like to use. call me back. >> you probably count how many steps he does. he is on the 500th step. >> he paces. he will wear out a piece of the grass up there. >> each time that he and his fellow officers launch i new operation in evanston, they face a executer, more calculating adversary. >> we're teach them how to do their job better. we need to adapt to that as

well. >> you have to think like them to a point. >> after doing this so many years, i had people tell me that i am tired of this. my wife is in pharmaceuticals. i go to their parties or a dinner, i can't be late. after doing this, it's hard to relate to those people. she said are you sure you are not the police. i said i wish i was, i would have a real job then. she was like all right, cool. you got the moneyy. she reached in her bra and pulled it out and handed it to me. she said the betters are the lighter ones. they are all good, but the lighter ones are good. >> besides the ecstasy dealer, the sheriffs police and evanston pd are lining up 20 other targets with the help of informants. they will make multiple drug buys with each of them in order to build the strongest cases. eventually they arrest them all in a massive sweep. >> that's why they call them

skittles. all the happy flavors. >> 37 miles to the south in mark um, members of the gang unit face a mission at hand. investigator matt jetta and fellow officers are executing the fourth search warrant in the past week. there is never a dull moment in their neck of the woods with the greatest proliferation of street gangs anywhere in cook county outside of the inner city. >> the target, we did three controlled buys, all crack cocaine. >> this whole family is locked up. he will be joining them. >> pull it down! get on the ground! we need to teach her how to walk. she is taking up valuable cart space. aren't you, honey? [ male announcer ] it's our biggest clearance event of the year where our prices are even lower. save money. live better. walmart. of the year where our prices are even lower. when bp made a commitment to the gulf,

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>> guys, thanks for coming out. our target is basically an order up guy. you call him and let him know what you want. nothing less than a 20. >> it's the middle of a nonstop

week for the gang unit based in chicago's south superbs. matt jenna is juggling five cases at once and has many more in the pipeline. >> we arrested this guy seven times alone and has ten arrests in the back ground. >>or average, the sheriff's units serve ten search warrants for drugs and guns every month. he and colleagues are focused on robins, harvey. the south suburbs are the single hottest gang activity outside of chicago's city limits. >> gunfire and have a position you can move to. let's gear up. >> this guy is selling a lot of crack cocaine and yet to see any jail time. hopefully this will be the nail in the coffin right here. >> here we go.

>> hands up. pull him down! get on the ground! >> i got it. >> police run into their target on the stairs. >> police, search warrant! >> they hit his apartment. >> you got it? >> they find what they came looking for right if plain view. >> half of what we recovered. a nice size amount of crack cocaine there. that's a good hit. a real good hit. >> i guess i caught you, huh? >> based on how much activity they see, the sheriff's gang investigators find it hard to believe claims that crime is down in chicago as the city and some suburban police departments reported. >> there is the expression and statistics. different towns have different

agendas. most of them are noble, but others don't want to acknowledge they have crime problems because of what it does to the neighborhood. you are left with educated guesses. they would be grabber ghasted if they knew how much they talked to each other. thing is for certain. as the city demolished the housing units, gangs migrated outward. they became part of an estimated 100,000 residents from low income sites forced to relocate in the past two decades. that made a lasting impact on communities to the south and to the north, including evanston. >> it's kind of a mini chicago. you have the diversity of the neighborhoods and you have $5 million houses on the lake and a lot of section eight housing and

poverty and pockets of bad areas. within the good areas. >> evanston police officers are part of the joint operation with the sheriff's police. they say they know all the key drug dealers in town and have recruited informants to help bring them down. >> we do whatever it takes to get charges on these guys. >> there is a lot of drug activity right here. this is a hub. at the center of this area. >> you will see guys posted up here as either look outs or whistling down the block. >> or handing out business cards. >> that too. >> we have this guy handing out business cards. this particular business card at one of the red line stations. he actually gave it to one of my informants. his card says 100 bags, call me first. bags of rock. street slang for crack cocaine. he had a stack of them and were

handing them out to people at the station. >> today an under cover sheriff's police officer will be buying product from the enterprising young dealer. six unmarked units set up surveillance outside the meet spot. >> the target is in the subway sitting down looking at the street. under a daily special sign. >> they are coming around towards howard from ashland. >> it will go downright next to us. the target's in the back seat. >> them to say in. the target is still inside. getting out. the target just got out and he has a walking piece. >> all right.

very good. >> claims they are a good deal. on the way back. >> in an hour or two we will send the officer back in and say the stuff was good, we will take six more. >> nice. >> count his money as you walk away. on to the next one. >> next on the squeeze -- >> you shot the wrong people. >> the community is in an uproar over it. >> it's a turn of the tide. shooting kids, get ready. we will hit the whole gang.

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enough risk by working with authorities, but a team of two enormously ups the stakes as each entrusts his life with the other. adrian sandoval and this pair of informants who we call poncho and lefty started an informant to nab a drug ring. the plan takes a 180 degree turn a week later. it's at this playground that gunfire erupts in avon dale park, a neighborhood on the northwest side. bullets strike two little girls, a 7-year-old and a 2-year-old, piercing in the back and grazing the other in the head. both survive their injuries and police capture the alleged gunman, a maniac latin disciple trying to shoot at a rival and missed. >> this was an outrageous act. >> chicago awe new superintendent declares war on the maniac latin disciples.

>> the organization will be held accountable for the actions of one of them. >> it's a turn of the tide and let everybody know we are not playing and we are going to set an example. if you are shooting kids, we are hitting the whole gang. >> poncho and lefty find themselves caught in the middle. prior to the shooting, they helped sandoval map out the citywide hierarchy of the organization. >> so the governor? >> he was with the minsters. >> that are information takes on a whole new relevance. >> how accurate is this? >> they are well-organized obviously and you can help them and it also hurts them. they have structure and somebody to answer to and delegate what's going to happen. it's one of the main guys who is highly involved decides to help us out, it's so much easier to take everybody else. >> sandoval and his ciu

colleagues share the intel who launch a massive crack down on the gang. within two weeks of the shooting, the chicago pd arrests 120 maniac latin disciples. many of them on misdemeanor charges and outstanding warrants. >> when the cops come sweep up the area, they sweep up everybody. not only did you send a message, but all gangs city-wide. >> investigators go to meet with one of the informants, lefty, in the meantime. >> you have it there and you call the police. he came out to all the disciples. everybody's good. >> lefty claims the shooter acted alone without authorization from the gang. he was fighting with latin kings, but now not even his own gang will defend him. >> he is shooting up by himself.

he's broke. >> as the maniac latin design ends wait, the drug sales dry up on the neighborhoods and they expect the rivals to retaliate since they were the intended targets of the shooting. for poncho and lefty, the stakes suddenly couldn't be higher. >> that will get you like that. it could be for the better. >> you definitely could have been caught with the sweep that's going on. you could have been sitting behind bars. >> investigators sandoval and carpenter decide to strike while the iron is hot and want to use pancho and lest to take down a nation house where the latin

disciples store their firearms. >> this is where they mostly all hang out, but the house is in charge of supplying all the guys out in the neighborhood with weapons. ammunition. >> they will have security front and back. we can definitely have to be prepared. >> despite the risk, their informants agree to help. they identify one house in particular where the gang not only keeps guns, but also sells narcotics. the next step, the sheriff's police will send an under cover officer there to buy drugs to obtain a search warrant. >> we will try to take off at the mid-level people in the gang. hopefully from that point. some of the violence will slow down. >> they are out there shooting people and we can get the guns off the street. that will be great. >> coming up on the squeeze -- >> i run his name out of texas and illinois and get nothing. like he doesn't exist. >> he seems like he was riding something for sure.

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even in the jail it's not acceptable. guys who shoot or kill middle kids. there is a lot of guys and anger and animosity. they would love to beat up one of the guys doing this and follow the rules. >> in the wake of a gang-related shooting that wounded two little girls on chicago's northwest side, authorities are cracking down on the maniac latin

disciples. as police saturate the neighborhoods, they are sending more and more so-called maniacs it jail. the alleged shooter himself is being held here under tight security. >> these kids fear for his life. we have to care about this kid getting killed. this action caused everybody to get locked up. the maniacs might go where? to bury his father and retaliate. now that they have war because of this kid affected our drug sale, we have to go and send a message because of his action. you affiliate or a rival? what's going on with your guys? >> i don't know. >> come on, chicago police number one hit list right now. >> if they do that to two little girls,y want to beat them up myself. that's crazy. you shoot at the person you shoot, not into the open park. >> these guys when you talk to

them, you can listen to the truth. other shootings are happening all over the city. they happen to be these two girls in a nicer neighborhood. what happens? >> chicago police, they are objective is to catch and arrest us. our objective as gang bangers or criminals is to get the hell away. they are doing their job, i'm doing mine. >> 24 miles south of chicago, sergeant terry tab and his team are playing the cat and mouse game in neighbors full of gang activity. >> people call us and say this person is selling drugs over here and this person was seen with a gun. we will follow-up when we get the complaint. >> several individuals. >> should have went to the lovely town of harvey. we have a couple of citizens

complaints in an area where a lot of vice lords are at. >> as tab and his fellow officers roll through a hot block, they make a traffic stop on a driver who is a little too eager to get away. >> you are charged with obstruction. i will give you anything. you want to start playing with these games, i will lock you up right now for obstruction. i need to see his id too. >> the house that we passed by that he picked this guy up is the house we are looking at. he is giving us attitude. as far as his passenger, he is giving us a name and date of birth and nothing is coming become. i need to be able to identify who you are. >> i'm from texas. >> you can see how nervous they are. you have to pay attention to things like that. somebody might be ready to take off. somebody might be ready to pull a gun out or ready to do anything. . >> he is shaking like a leaf.

see his chest? i run his name out of texas and illinois and get nothing. like he doesn't exist. what's up with you? you never have been arrested before in your? what's your social? >> i don't know it by heart. >> you don't know it by heart? he don't know his social. nothing coming back on him. something ain't right. >> while matt focuses on the passenger, the sergeant makes a curious discovery on the truck's rear bumper. >> those do look like blood drops. >> slumthabsolutely. >> what were you hauling that was allred. stuff that looks like blood on your tailgate. i have to make sure you don't have a human being in there. out of the star.

step out of the car. >> this guy is -- we mention the blood spatter and his neck was shaking like you wouldn't believe. >> you want to take my vehicle, take it. >> i don't want to take it. i want to make sure there is nobody in your tailgate. i am being simple and profession professional. >> i'm not simple because i'm upset. you can open it. >> you open it or you go to jail. >> i you i'm upset. >> i am making sure there ain't nobody in there, man. you want to me what that red stuff is on the back of your truck? >> that's ruby red mulch. >> that's mulch? >> no body in the truck, but tab and jenna discover that the passenger has a warrant for assault in illinois after he confess his real name. the records show he is classified as armed and dangerous.

they take him into custody and reluctantly let the driver go. >> this guy, he has been around the block times, you can tell. he's the type of person like you just want to dig a little bit further, because he seems like he was hiding something, for sure. maybe he thought we had something on him already. how many guys will they search? you know what i'm saying? so we got to figure out a way to get two warrants a day to get a warrant in by thursday. >> time is of the essence for investigator adrian sand vol, whose plan to target the main ache latin disciples is in motion. two of his informants, who we're calling upon chao and lefty, have agreed to take down a so-called nation house, where the gang stores weapons and else narcotics. their access will enable the sheriff's police to make undercover drug buys at the house for the purpose of getting

a search warrant. >> that's basically the stronghold to that block or that area. this location isn't just a little hangout, with there's heavies out. >> within a few days, investigators wrap up enough buys for a warrant. they want to hit the house fast, before the maniac latin disciples, who are already feeling the heat, move their weapons elsewhere. >> get one inside the house! all right. police! search warrant! police! search warrant! with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend against digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'.

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the community is an up roar over it, the community is an uproar about it. so hitting this house will hope

flip send a message. >> police have declared war on the maniac latin disciples in chicago following a gang-related shooting of two little girls who were bystanders. now, eight days later, the sheriff's police have a warrant to search a so-called nation house, where the gang allegedly stashes guns and drugs. >> it's coming. kids in the yard! kids in the yard! kids went inside the house. >> back inside the house! >> come to the door! come to the door! police! search warrant! police! search warrant! come to the door! come to the door!

>> police clear the house within minutes. they find the tenant, an alleged maniac latin disciple, and his family inside. they take him into custody and begin searching the premises while the neighborhood watches. the last thing that investigators expect to happen, however, is to walk away with almost nothing. they find a misdemeanor amount of marijuana and some paraphernalia, but not the weapons that they'd counted on. >> we've got two options. we charge you and you go to court tomorrow. or you work with the police. i know there was guns in your house at one time, because this is a nation stash house, okay? you moved them. i'm going to take that weed and the paraphernalia and i'm going to send it to the state lab. after that, i can charge you, anytime i want, but within the next week, you hand me two guns, this is how your case is going

to go away. >> there was a lot of guys on that block, so a lot of people seen him get hit, a lot of people seen him get let go. we'll see what happens. and he knows if he doesn't come through, it won't be hard to catch him. >> in the week that follows, the suspect decides to take his chance with authorities. he never turns over the guns. >> what are they saying at the meetings, other than they down? >> after the failed police raid, with investigator sandoval and carpenter follow up with their informants. poncho and lefty claim that the gang moved its weapons to another location a day before police arrived and they only found out after the fact.

>> everybody on the ground, man, everybody. pretty much the word is fall back. >> timing and luck were on their side. >> it kind of worked out better for them. they're not worried about anybody thinking they're going to be up here working for the police, when everybody's trying to hide from the police right now. >> they have a bond. and a code of silence between them will be real strong. >> as long as chicago police continue cracking down on the maniac latin disciples, the gang will stay on its heels, losing status and money in the drug trade. >> we've got to find these. >> can we knock the organization

out in one fell sweep? no. but i think it's definitely done some damage. it's sent a shock wave. >> they're not retaliating or fighting back against law enforcement, but they'll keep a step ahead of the game. somebody that big, that organ e organiz organized. they'll do what they have to do to survive. >> authorities are giving ready to hit the gangs in evanston in one fell swoop. as the joint operation between the sheriff's police and evanston pd nears its end game, investigators are looking at arresting 20 targets in the area. >> i'd like to keep this rolling through july, august, and do the sweep right before school starts. because once we hit them hard, like that, everything shuts down. and these kids can go to school and pretty much all the california will be off the street for a while. so that would be ideal. >> before the summer ends in chicago, a reputed maniac latin disciple bludgeons a 14-year-old boy with a baseball bat. he puts the