DEA agent in Chicago charged with conspiring to traffic guns and drugs with international gang

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One or more of the 68,615 SEALED | 6,337 UNSEALED | 96,085 NON-SEALED indictments as of December 1, 2018 perhaps?

DEA agent in Chicago charged with conspiring to traffic guns and drugs with international gang

"......Gomez was charged in a superseding indictment unsealed in New York with racketeering conspiracy for his alleged decadelong affiliation with the Organizacion de Narcotraficantes Unidos, a conglomeration of drug traffickers based in Puerto Rico responsible for importing vast shipments of cocaine into New York and elsewhere.

The 40-page indictment alleged the gang participated in at least eight drug-related killings in New York and Puerto Rico dating to 2005.

One of Gomez’s co-defendants, William Vasquez-Baez, was a police officer in Puerto Rico when he and another alleged gang member killed a rival in San Juan in 2007, prosecutors charged in court records filed in the case.

Gomez began working for the gang when he was a detective for Evanston police, according to the charges. He obtained firearms from drug dealers and provided them to gang leader Jose Martinez-Diaz, also known as “Tony Zinc,” in Puerto Rico, according to the indictment....."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-evanston-cop-international-drug-conspiracy-20181211-story.html

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