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Influences: KIDNICE, RAPSTA, MR MURDA 430,HITZ , PUN, RO, CHUCO, SLICK PIMP C, BUN B, 8 BALL & MJG, ROWDY, RIEZON, LIL' BOOSIE, THREE 6 MAFIA, NAS, JAY-Z, LIL' WAYNE, SCARFACE, & YO GOTTIIllinois, Gang members arrested in Aurora drug sweepAn FBI-led, 1 1/2-year drug investigation into the largest street gang in Aurora netted the group's top enforcer and 18 other members from Aurora, Lisle and Naperville, police said.The gang sweep also took a "significant" amount of drugs off suburban streets, law enforcement officials said Thursday.Police are still looking for another two gang members from Aurora who were not picked up in the Thursday raid."We are sending a message to the scum that belongs to gangs that this community belongs to the citizens, not them," Kane County Sheriff Ken Ramsey said.The raid is in essence the continuation of a partnership among Aurora police, the Kane County sheriff's office and the FBI that led to the arrest of dozens of gang members two years ago.Informants and contacts garnered in that bust helped officials target the Aurora man they call the drug kingpin, Saul Tejeda. Through a two-month wiretap of his phone, officials were able to gain evidence against his major distributors, investigators said. Tejeda was bringing in two kilos of cocaine a week, valued at between $32,000 and $40,000, they said. They had not yet determined how much cocaine and marijuana was seized in the raid on five locations in and around Aurora, but they called it significant.Officials say they believe Tejeda's drug ring has been operating since at least January 2000.The drugs were being sold around the Aurora area and as far away as Ottawa and Sterling, officials said. According to court documents, the gang alternated bringing drugs into the area and raiding the stashes of rival gangs. The cocaine was delivered in rented vehicles, often to public parking lots, or by Tejeda himself, hidden under his motorcycle helmet, the documents said.The wire taps also revealed gang members repeatedly talking about potential violence or plans for shootings, the court documents said.Aurora police credit 50 percent of Aurora's 248 homicides since 1990 to this particular gang and another 25 percent to other gangs. Police also credit several non-fatal shootings, kidnappings and robberies to the gang targeted by the sweep. The gang has its base of operations on the city's east side, but its members live and work in other areas of the city as well, according to court papers.FBI official Robert Grant said the kind of sophistication and violence seen in the Aurora gang is typical of the growing gang base in the suburbs. In 2001, the FBI added a third gang unit in Illinois to specifically target gangs in the Western suburbs."They are migrating increasingly to places such as Aurora," Grant said. "To places such as Naperville. To places such as Kane County and Will County."In Aurora alone, police speculate the city has 500 active gang members and another 500 people who help them.That has to stop, said Aurora Police Chief William Lawler. He called on friends and neighbors to "stop turning a blind eye" to unemployed residents with fancy cars and fancy clothes.Grant called on all religious and civic institutions in all the suburbs to focus on de-glorifying the gang life, a tactic that has proved successful elsewhere. Without that type of intervention, gangs will continue to migrate and over time become more sophisticated and harder to stop, he said."These gangs end up not just being an urban threat but a suburban and rural threat," he said.The 19 gang members charged in federal court Thursday will appear again today. Each man could face up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine if convicted. They are being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.An additional two men face charges from the Kane County state's attorney's office of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon. During investigation raids, they were found with a .357 and 9 mm handguns, police say. They are scheduled to appear in bond court in Aurora today.Sweep: Police say gang linked to half the murders in AuroraKane County prosecutors plan to drop charges in two "cold case" Aurora murders after a major witness in the cases was murdered in Rockford last month.Jamaal "Isaac" Delville Garcia was slated to testify against Jesse Lopez and Quentin Moore as part of the Aurora cold case operation, a joint FBI and local police venture dubbed First Degree Burn.But on Sept. 23, police found Garcia's badly burned body in a secluded wooded area near Rockford's airport. He had been shot multiple times, police said.Three people face charges in connection with the killing, which rose out of a dispute over a gun, according to Deputy Chief Greg Lindmark of the Rockford Police Department."It turns out we have two (cases) where he was a major witness," Kane County State's Attorney John Barsanti said. "We cannot prove these cases without him."Because a defense attorney wouldn't be able to question Garcia, any statements or grand jury testimony he provided are not admissible in a trial, Barsanti said. He added that all of the cold cases witnesses went before a grand jury.
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As such, prosecutors will soon dismiss a 2003 murder charge against Lopez in the shooting death of Juan Carlos Rodriguez in Aurora. He is already in prison on an unrelated felony conviction.Moore still has two pending murder cases after the state drops charges against him in the 2003 murder of Jorge Uriostigue
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