we've got guys fighting. >> hey, hey, hey, hands on the wall. >> these guys sitting in jail will break you. >> nobody going home. >> going from not telling on these guys to i'll tell on whoever you want. >> the gangs, where it takes you, dogfighting one day, drugs another day. >> how many matches do you think? >> 15 or 16 matches. >> that many? >> you dabble in everything but you concentrate on getting information from gang bangers. >> do you have anything at your house right now.

>> it's show time. >> policia! policia! >> do they brag how much money they have out there? >> they make thousands of it. >> is it always 100s? >> it's 50s, 100s. >> that's your ace in the hole. >> have you ever worked with the police department? [ siren ]

>> hey, turn the car off. turn the car off. step on out. come on. right to that officer. >> this is a known felon and they received intelligence that he's in possession of three to five dogs that he trains for dogfighting. >> be advised, female in the house. >> what's going on? >> we've got a search warrant. you were lucky enough to encounter the targeted search warrant in the alley attempting to drive off and a short time later they found three dogs in the basement. two of them did have some sort of scarring. i'm not sure if that's from training or from actual dog fights. >> this way. this way. come on.

>> very indicative of dogfighting. yes, she was tore up pretty good. >> i really feel bad for these dogs. i've got one at home myself. just the way they reacted when we walked up to the cages, it's just unreal. i'm hoping that the judge is a pretty hard on these guys and not just handing down fines for the way that they are treating these animals. >> a new home awaits this little of pups that have been bred to compete in chicago's underground world. a tip made this rescue possible. for the most part, the tight-knit circuit of dogfighters remains tight for police to crack. they stage dog fights everywhere in the midwest. >> they are very mobile. more so than anything else. most of the narcotics deals we work on, it's structured.

this one, as of the day, you don't know the precise location, precise time. they constantly move. so virtually all of our big arrests, all of the big fights, all of the big breeders that we've got, almost all of them have been on tips from somebody else. >> the role that informants play in these cases is critical. it only works if police recruit those who already belong to the subculture. >> the people involved, they all run in the same circles so they all know each other. it's one of the hard things to catch. whenever i see a face, they might pull the plug on them. >> a major push by cook county sheriff has led to stricter dog laws. it's no longer a misdemeanor to attend a dogfighting match. now it's a felony.

armed with stiffer penalties, authorities have more leverage to use against arrestees. one result is they can squeeze suspects more effectively for intel. >> anyone who is going to attend these where animals are being killed, they deserve to have a felony attached to them. >> how many dog fights do you usually have at these events? >> eight to nine fights. >> if you're talking 30 minutes, a fight, that is four hours of fighting? >> it's all day. we call it rodeos. >> five days before a warrant, pursing a lead into an alleged dogfighting tournament on the city's west side. it's one of many expected to take place over the holiday. >> halloween is the biggest day of dogfighting. it is their super bowl. financially they save up all year in order to bet on as well as this is is the day that they

all have their dogs trained to fight. >> it's going to be a good catch, though. >> you have the guys who sell drugs that bet on the dogfights. probably like 500,000. >> at a single fight? >> on one single fight. >> davis began working with his informant six months ago while he was locked up on a drug possession charge. we're calling him "slim" to protect his identity. he proved himself as an informant then and is back on the street now. but this is the first time for him to give up his dogfighting connections. >> i've been fighting dogs since i was like 13. i was really good at training them. they call it shaping them. i really can't stand the fights no more. i can't take it when they bite each other in the mouth, they call it crunches. when they've got a dead lock on

them. >> i also heard that once the dog is done fighting, they will kill them in front of everybody. >> i mean, only time they kill them is when they lose their money. they shoot them in the head, you know. >> i mean, these are truly defective human beings. so what should we expect when we go in there? >> you're looking at like 40 to 50 guys. >> 40 to 50, huh? >> everybody is sitting around in chairs, standing up behind the other guys and all of the dogs are in one room in cages. like 50 cages. dude gets the cages and it goes on all night long. >> you there's going to be drugs? >> there are drugs. where there is a dogfight there

is always guns and drugs. it goes hand in hand. one crime breeds another crime, you know. and this guy, i said this guy here who's been doing this for years. >> has he been busted before? >> this is pretty much the hobby of drug dealers. it's just as dangerous as the dope game. >> most dope dealers, he's known for having killers. >> slim's insider status could be the key that allows the sheriffs to crash the halloween party. they will begin conducting surveillance on a house that slim has identified. >> the names that he was playing as the players. >> yet they also realize that the informant's personal baggage could throw their whole investigation.

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everybody, have a good night. i be home. i be home. >> these guys sitting in jail, holidays around the corner, nobody wants to sit here around thanksgiving and christmas. they breakdown around this time of year.

it's leverage for us, also. >> hey, hey, hey. everybody turn around. hands on the wall! hands on the wall! >> were you sleeping? gang banging? you signed up for that. >> desperation often drives the men and women incarcerated at chicago's cook county jail. 95% of detainees here are charged, but not convicted of crimes. they are being held until they face trial. some will try to cut a plea bargain with the state's attorney by providing information that helps law enforcement. that's where investigators from the criminal intelligence unit or ciu come in. >> i'll put 1500 people through this receiving room a day. and the staff that i have down in here on all three shifts, everybody takes it down here as what can we do to help out?

we're in contact with everybody from ciu. we call them. if we have the time, we will go search for information. there's a certain way that we talk to people to find out, do you have anything to offer us? >> the bottom line is, we don't lie to them. we don't tell them we can do something for them when we can't. i think that's the most important key for us. >> but finding and grooming good informants isn't easy. not when the average candidate is either a drug addict or career criminal. and female inmates are the hardest to recruit for different reasons. >> women have a different set of circumstances than men. yes, murder is murder, possession is possession. but when you deal with people that take care of children, you

know, when you deal with a mother, a grandmother, it's a little bit different. they are less likely to talk than the men. because i think women have more to lose. they have children and that's always a deciding factor for a woman to divulge any information. you know, their families are still out in the world. they are not as ready to give up that sort of information. >> rather than risk putting their loved ones in danger, many women will choose to fight their cases or serve their time in prison. >> it's easy to get in here but it's hard as hell to get out. you accept what you did and then you deal with it. >> i'm in here for first-degree murder and armed robbery of a police officer that i've never even seen. >> i'm in here for first-degree murder and a home invasion charge which was self-defense.

>> i had a gun and the gun went off and shot the girl. >> it's innocent people in here who ain't done nothing. >> all i can do is wait my time out here and basically that's it. >> but there are some women at county who do go out on a limb and become informants, usually so they can return home to their children. that's exactly what this inmate, whom we'll refer to as cleo intends to do. >> i got kids at home and i'm looking at seven years. i really can't go back to jail. i have to do what i can do to get out. >> cleo got out on furlough but cut off her monitoring band and now faces attempted flight charges. >> this is our first conversation, obviously, but i was briefed by the sheriff's police team in regards to some information that you came forward with to them in regards

to a counterfeit money operation. i've got their version of the story. i'd like to hear your version of the story. >> they make a lot of money. they own printed machines and it's a setup in their apartment and they've been doing it, to my knowledge, about a year and a half. >> the kind of money they are making, are they using $5 bills and turning them into 100s? >> no, 20s, 50s. i had some before. >> you still had the money? >> and i still have $100 bill at home. >> uh-huh. >> would we be able to get that? >> however you want to word it to your mama that the police are going to come by and get that, really that's your ace in the hole. because this could all be script. i'm not saying it's script. it sounds good but until we get something in our hand to back it up, it's all script, you feel me? >> uh-huh. >> if i can let you pitch a call from here, listen, i'm sitting with the people that are trying to get me out of jail but we

need that 100. does she know where it is or can you tell her? >> i'm going to tell her where it is. >> hey, is my mama there? man, i need her. do you know when she be back in? okay, i'll call them back later. bye-bye. he said she left like 20 minutes ago. she into drugs so she be in and out. >> what are the odds that we get that money? we don't get that money, we don't get anything. >> you and me both. blood on the floor, huh? >> coming up on "the squeeze" -- >> what we like to do is get the dogfight the moment it starts so the dogs don't tear each other up.

they ever brag about how much money they've put out there? >> they make thousands. >> is it always hundreds that they are printing?

>> it's 50s, 20s, 10s. >> this inmate, who we've been calling cleo, has given up a money ring, it's her bargaining chip to get out of jail. >> any of those bills look familiar to you? >> this one right here. >> this is the location for sure? >> yes. >> cleo says she's trying to go home for her children's sakes and has no qualms about working with authors. >> i believe there are two people in prison. one who didn't tell and wish they had. i just need that money. >> your mom's not home? >> no. can i call back? >> yep. >> investigators can't move forward until cleo produces the $100 counterfeit bill that she claims she has at home. the trouble is, her drug-addicted mother may have found the money and spent it. >> mom, this is very important. i need you to do this. you know my traveling bag -- she put me on hold. >> be patient.

believe me, you need this. >> yeah. okay, mom. you know my traveling bag, the maroon and black one, the big one? do you see it? my fellow officer is going to come out what do you mean it shouldn't be empty. no, it shouldn't be empty. keep everything inside the bag. keep everything in it. somebody's going to come pick it up. right now. yeah, keep everything in the bag, mama. trust me, just keep everything in the bag. i got to get off the phone. all right. i love you. all right. bye-bye. whew. she said okay. >> she's going through your bag right now, you know that? >> but it's on the side pocket. >> you don't think she's going to find it? >> no. >> this is really 50/50, as far as i'm concerned.

what's sad is this girl can't even tell her mother that this $100 is probably a first-class ticket out of jail for her because her mom's a dope feign. i'm investigator carpenter, i'm coming to pick up that bag for your daughter. i'm out front. could you come out front and just hand me the bag, please? hey, how you doing? is the bag here? all right. this is my contact number if you need anything, go ahead and let me know but we're trying to get her out as soon as we can. let her mother know we said thank you. have a good night, sir. all right. if the money's here, we will move forward and it won't be hard to get her back out on furlough and then we can control her movement so she's not 100% confined to house arrest. we'll be able to let her move around when we want her to move

around in order to make deals with these guys and get intel for us. >> i see it. >> put it up. see if it's good. >> you got a real one? >> are you serious? >> it feels short. >> it's a great print job. >> it's short for sure. >> but they could have gotten better. it's close. a quick look -- a quick look -- you know what i'm saying, at the store -- >> mom and pop shop. >> the backside -- >> the backside, though, it's perfect. >> yeah, the backside is perfect. it does have some type of watermark in there. it has something in it, don't

it? or no. except it says $5. >> no it don't, does it? >> absolutely. can you see that? it says 5. >> it does have the wrong watermark. >> but so what? the back looks good. in a bar, hand a bartender this, they are going to go like this and throw it in. >> yep. >> very good, guys. you've got change for 100? [ laughter ] >> nobody going home. what kind of a case you got, man in. >> possession. >> drug case? >> super x. >> what about you? you going home? >> you straight. >> so do you know what time? >> the fights start around 7:30 and probably go on until about

3:00, 4:00 in the morning. >> the biggest night of the year for dogfighting, halloween, is just around the corner. and the street informant, whom we've been calling slim, has close ties to that underground blood sport. >> we all come together, we all leave together. that's the rule. no leaving and going to the car. none of that. these guys are real paranoid about the fact that you might be calling the police. most of the time you're stuck there. you stay there. >> slim says he knows who is organizing a major tournament and exactly where it's being held on the city's west side. >> that's the only time of the year where you get all of the gang chiefs together. >> how many do you think we'll see when we pop this house? >> probably half a mill. >> investigator mike davis contacts the sheriff police so they can begin setting up surveillance on the target's house but it's no sure thing.

most dogfighting venues change at the last minute to elude authorities. >> when you talk to people who have been dealing with dogfighting for years and years and years, even then they will say in 10, 15 years trying to go after dogfighting, they've only seen one or two going on live as they went through the doors. >> do you think they are a higher end dogfighter? >> two days before halloween, slim meets with the animal crime unit to help them obtain with the search warrant. he insists, based on what he's hearing, the venue won't change. >> we had a search warrant. he's even willing to bring in a third party. he's so intertwined he was willing to bring in a third party to go watch the fights with him. >> there's always weapons for safety. >> they keep the guns in the basement? >> yeah. the guns are not allowed at any fight. the guys are allowed to bring one weapon in but it has to be

checked at the door. it's just like coats checked at the front door, you know. >> police move forward with the operation for now, are wary of slim's own agenda, scoring his next fix. >> this is your typical addict. this guy is working to pay for his habits. you've just got to know what you're dealing with. >> coming up on "the squeeze" -- >> we're waiting for intel to come back from that location. the fight is supposed to go on in the basement. >> how do you want to do this? >> we start with your attitude. >> right there in plain view is what we have right here. the end. lovely read susan. but isn't it time to turn the page on your cup of joe? gevalia, or a cup of johan, is like losing yourself in a great book. may i read something? yes, please. of course. a rich, never bitter taste cup after cup. net weight 340 grams.

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>> got it. hook him up. >> any given night on the street, the sheriff's police will catch a suspect red-handed. often times this person will give up a bigger fish in order to get himself off the hook. that's the case with one south side drug dealer that investigators already captured and flipped. >> this will determine if he will continue to work with us. or. if we're going to go ahead and charge him. >> the suspect has told him about a family restaurant whose owners serve mexican fare but deal with marijuana on a regular basis. >> he walks in, bring them right to the back room and it's all set up there in bags. they have a scale and walk right out the door while people are eating their tacos and everything. >> the source says that the intel is timely, too, because a new shipment of marijuana arrived recently. >> heard him on the phone and

telling other guys said, you better come through now because i've got it. whenever he starts calling people -- >> calling all of his connections. >> the task force, which is part of our team, actually hit last year. over 300 pounds. so we'll see. all right, guys, i want to thank everybody for coming out. basically, we have a search warrant here today. we did surveillance on this last week we observed people making purchases and leaving. there should be two or three employees. the front door is opened until 10:00. the target made it back to the restaurant. he's inside the location. >> here's the deal. we're going to stop short of the location, offload our vehicles. we're going to get into a nice orderly stack. mike is going to lead the breachers. sergeant tabb. >> we're going to clear this like we do a house.

>> there may be customers so use some discretion. >> okay. show time. >> the door is wide open. repeat, the door is wide open. >> reach around. reach around. >> police find their target inside and arrested him but he's not the only one that they believe who is trafficking drugs. there is also his brother who they suspect is the ring leader. they take him into custody as well. >> his brother was the one that got hit last year by the task force with 300 pounds. he got 24 months probation, no jail time. so he got a slap on the wrist and went right back out and did

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policia! policia! >> after raiding a family restaurant on chicago's south side, the sheriffs police have the owners, two brothers, boxed in a corner. they've seized 2 1/2 pounds of marijuana on the premise and now they want to search the homes of both men. the brothers are allegedly tied to the mexican mafia, one of them, the apparent ring leader, was recently convicted of possession. he was caught with more than 300 pounds of weed but got sentenced to only two years probation. that's who the investigator wants to put the squeeze on first. he needs his permission to search his house.

it's a quicker alternative than waiting hours of a court-approved search warrant. >> at this point it's, do you want to help yourself out or violate your probation. because say what you want to say, you're both being charged with that. you can help yourself out, we're going to call your probation officer and go through the hassle. >> do you have anything else at your house right now in. >> i don't have anything at my house. >> you don't mind if you take a look? >> you can take a look if you want. >> okay. this form right here is basically a consent to search form. >> uh-huh. >> if you have no objections to us going over there and taking a look. how many people are at your house right now? >> my two daughters. >> and you have your wife? >> yeah, i have my wife. >> we are going to head over there now. we are going to ask you to sign this.

if you don't sign it, no problem. i'm going to have your wife or two daughters sign it and we're going to search your house. >> i want to talk to my lawyer. >> if you want to talk to your lawyer, we have no reason to talk to you right now. if you don't want to work with us, that's fine. >> how you want to charge me with something that's not mine. >> you can call your lawyer and you guys can figure that out in court. that's not my problem. that's not his problem. that's your problem. >> every charge we can put on him, it's what is going to happen. >> let's go to his house. >> they make the decision which way they want to go. >> the plan now hit the homes of both arrestees. there's potential to find a lot more dope as long as no one's moved it yet. >> their phones have been blowing up since we hit the stores. >> it's either customers or somebody trying to find out what is going on. >> police can still go to court for a search warrant. but they will try asking the families to let them in first. >> how are you today?

we're with the cook county sheriff's police. >> one way or another we're going to try to work that angle tonight while it's still fresh because the longer we wait, the quicker it's going to be gone. >> they are denied permission at one residence. >> we are going to come back, though. >> yet managed to talk their way into the other. >> matt got a consent to search and right now he's located what appears to be a strong box downstairs. they found an amount of money wrapped in plastic hidden in the wall in that area. >> the strong box doesn't contain what they are looking for. >> a lot of porno movies and collectable coins and some lotion. >> they find a second hiding spot on the property, this time with better results. >> we got more cannibis out of this residence, identical to the packaging that we found at the store.

>> this was located in the refrigerator. open it up right in plain view, this is what we have right here. >> we're looking at one, two, three, four, five -- about six pounds. with a little bit of persistence, definitely, it paid off. >> the payoff is even sweeter for investigators because they got it from the home of the alleged ring leader. now they can pin new drug possession charges on him. >> last time he got 24 months probation but now that he's still on probation, he's definitely looking at jail time. he's definitely going to take a hit for it. >> but one question remains, where's the mother load of narcotics? investigators tried talking to each of the brothers at lockup later. neither wants to cooperate so they will charge both with drug possession and intent to deliver. if convicted, the suspects could face up to 15 years in prison. >> hey, what's up, bro? yeah, we hit it. it's all good. we did good.

>> meanwhile, matthew's informant calls to ask about the outcome of tonight's raid? >> your end of the deal is good and if you want to work for us, we'll start paying for you, okay? >> he was talking earlier about how he needed some money for christmas. >> if he wants to start making money with us, he can. >> lock me up with some bogus. stuff. make sure you tell them that. >> close that door. >> how many matches do you think? >> should be like maybe 15, 15 to 16 matches, you know. >> that many? so maybe 30 dogs? >> thanks to an inside source who we've been calling slim, the

sheriff's police plan to hit a high stakes dogfighting tournament on halloween. once fight night arrives, investigators are ready to scare up plenty of arrests. slim has promised them a house full of gang bosses and pitbulls on the city's west side. >> we have somebody in a surveillance van on the scene watching the area to see if people are coming and going and gathering. we were told between 8:30 and 9:00 is when things were going to start. >> we're waiting for some intel to come back from that location. we do have a search warrant for the basement for that location. once you guys address the target, you're going to hold the basement, cure it, and we have animal control to come in there and take the dogs, too. again, there's going to be a lot of people out there so you've got to be on your toes, okay. >> the problem is, their informant stopped returning their calls tonight. >> voice mail. >> and there's bad news from the

police unit that's watching the house. >> three total people came in? nothing went into the basement yet? all right. so we'll give it a little bit more time. i'll talk to the commander, see what he has to say. yeah, that's bad. that's bad. >> you never know with these guys. they may change the location at the last minute. this warrant is probably 50/50 right now. >> police, search warrant! open the door! >> while the police strike team rehearses for the dogfighting raid, investigators try to track down their informant and hope that the trick's not on them. >> sometimes people get tipped off, sometimes the informants flip on us, sometimes our surveillance is spotted. a lot of variables in the game, you know. next on "the squeeze" -- >> a lot of these guys we've been dealing with are thinking, can i take this guy? can i get away with it?

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♪ it's halloween night in chicago. and the sheriffs police are waiting for the go-ahead to raid an alleged dogfighting tournament. but their informant's disappeared, and a stakeout team says that the target house is dead quiet. after more than two hours with no change, authorities call off the operation. >> kind of disheartening because they probably are going to be fighting somewhere. just don't have the location right now. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. >> they believe that their informant either got scared or got strung out on drugs instead.

they learn that he did both when they finally reach him two days later. >> his mindset was, i couldn't do it, i pulled the plug on it. you know, i said, listen, if you would have called us up and said, hey, you know what, this thing's got to -- i got to kill it, it's just way too hot, we would have understood and would be willing to work forward with him on the next case. but because he didn't do that, it makes it a lot more difficult to pitch it to your bosses. he burnt himself. absolutely. >> take it easy, boy. >> animal crimes unit moves on to its next case and its next informant and catches another dogfighting ring weeks later. >> you got another dog in here? we got the blood on the floor, huh? >> what we like to do is get the dog fight the moment it starts

so the dogs don't tear each other up. >> police pressure is driving more and more dog fighters out of cook county. the sheriffs team has busted 67 suspects in the past year and helped save almost 400 dogs. >> ah, look at that face. he's a nice puppy, too. >> typical is to have them put back together physically because they're so scarred up and damaged. then to see whether or not they can be sort of deprogrammed and then adopted out. there are some dogs, though, that it's just -- in spite of the best efforts, there's nothing that can be done. the whole thing is just so outrageously sick. >> said it works. >> said it works. you can tell by looking at it it's short on the one side. >> the back side, though -- look at the back side. the back side's perfect. >> actions speak louder than words, and until informants come

through with results, all their talk means nothing. this inmate who we've been calling cleo has proven that her information is on the money. >> this is even one of the better ones. >> yeah, you can tell right away how short -- >> this is the one you were talking about? >> she's given up a counterfeiting ring, plus a sample of their work to show that her story's legit. >> this takes our journey here to the next level. because everything you said came to fruition. >> investigators officially sign her up. >> don't mess it up. >> i ain't gonna mess it up. >> but sometimes good intel, alone, isn't enough. one week later, the state's attorney office rejects cleo's bid for a plea deal. because she's facing an attempted flight charge, the state says she's too risky to work with. >> sometimes even though you cooperate and we do everything we can do, it just doesn't work out. we're not the state. we're not the judge. we're not the jury. we can't control everything. we'll do our part, you do yours. if it works out, great. if it doesn't, you got to do your time.

>> cleo's not going home for the holidays, and neither are 9,000 other inmates at county. as another long chicago winter sets in, there's no slowdown of gang or drug activity on the streets. yet, police can count on their informants to make it a season of giving year round. >> minivan going toward the drive-thru. >> got it. moving in. >> also a red car parked on the other side. somebody take that car, too. >> tonight, they've received a late christmas gift from one of their sources. >> shut the vehicle off. shut the vehicle off. you have any weapons or anything in the vehicle i should know about? mind if i take a look? go ahead? consent. >> they've been tipped off to an alleged crack dealer who's apparently transporting dope at a friend's vehicle.

>> whose car is this? >> it's her car. >> is there anything in that vehicle that shouldn't be in there? how can you speak to that? >> i don't know. i couldn't tell you. >> it's only a matter of minutes before a police dog finds the stash. and the target realizes that he's busted. >> you say up under the seat? >> yeah. >> jail is the last place that he wants to go. so it's either fight or flight. >> why would you do this? oh, my god. >> he knew it was over with. a complete and total act of desperation. >> stand him up. stand him up. come on, brother. you need to get up.

don't be sorry to me. you can't run from the police. we got you. let's go. >> and now he's caught in the squeeze. >> you know someone who's moving weight? >> crack houses. i can go to marshfield, any street here, crack house. i'm talking about somebody that's actually doing something. yeah, a little bit of weight, yeah. would be nice. >> that's the kind of guy that you want. he's going to be able to get us into more weight. he'll get us to somebody higher up on the food chain. >> do it? you know if you don't do it what's going to happen, right? that means whatever they can charge you with, they will. start thinking of some names now. we'll mark them, sit down, we'll figure some things out. all right? this is going to go from here right to the next one. so keep rolling and rolling. looks like a job well done.

evanston, 13 miles north of downtown chicago, home to northwestern university and multimillion dollar mansions. an idyllic north shore suburb. >> police search warrant. compromise! compromise! compromise! >> until you look closely. >> target in the lot. >> got a guy right there. he's right there. >> when i get the [ muted ] out of here you all know what time it is. >> it's d-day for sergeant olander and the cook county sheriff's police. together with the evanston pd