conduct raids on two drug houses. one informant high-ranking member of the latin kings supplied the intel. be advised. sandoval s car en route. what we re doing now is heading over to markham courthouse with the sheriff s police officers for debriefing. we have two targets, both based in chicago heights, supposed to have a large amount of cannabis in both places. possibly heroin. here s the video of the house. here s the van. there s that side door. we may be able to get through here. guys, everybody, thanks for coming out. we ve got everyone here from a few different gang teams. appreciate the help. we have two search warrants in chicago heights. informant used was taken down at the jail by the criminal intelligence guys at jail and passed on to demus with the gang intelligence team. we have ucs watching the house.
valuable tools, gang hierarchy charts. we ll put these out on a monthly basis to the superintendents. it just gives everybody a heads-up on who has rank amongst each individual gang. you ll have all the guys titles, the rick names, the regular names and where they are housed at in the compound. and this is every gang within the compound. our goal is knowing these guys, when we do these, i study the faces. so now i don t forget a face when they come in. now you can just pick them up. how do you know my face? stay out of trouble, shorty. you have to be four or five steps in front of the inmates. when you go into the interview, you have to know something about somebody or their organization. if you don t, he s going to spin you right off the bat. besides kites jailhouse informants are the next best source for intel. the process of cultivating inmates is flawed with potential pitfalls. inmates who try to plea barg within the state s attorney
of guys. there are runners out there. he s going out on the streets. you got nothing on me, man. y all got the wrong boy. how many p s in the g s? a couple. i want to get my life together. no you don t. yes, i do. then prove it to me and try to stay out of trouble. i try to. a guy of his caliber can help himself get out. where you are you going to relocate? i m trying to get myself together. where are you going? atlanta. am i right? no. he s known for running to atlanta. so he said when i get out of here i m going to leave, to atlanta? his eyeballs popped. we like to see where their mind is and let them know, we know who you are, we want you to know who we are, it is a cat and mouse game. you know a little too much, man. i know a little bit. you know a lot.
be anything. who is this? that s the main guy, all right? main guy? yeah. what was his function? he was the man. so all the money you guys made went through his hands? yeah. everything comes together at once because he s given me all the things that i need. we identified multiple guys affiliated with street organization, not only did we identify them, he gives me the guys that are actually active and participate on a daily basis. guys carrying the weapons, guys selling the narcotics, guys moving the pecks. my job is to put the whole thing together. i cross-referenced with local police departments in chicago and then will formulate it into a colored chart and can distribute it to other law enforcement agencies in and around the area.
you re pumpkin? i hear a lot about you, pumpkin. that means you are a gd. when we re interested in a specific area, we know who the players are. we have information and intelligence. the jail is such a fluid place where we have 10,000 people there a day that are coming and going with great fluidity that our intelligence that we get out of there is as timely as you re ever going to get. we get a call from one of the guys that s on the gang intelligence unit down at the jail and they ll say, hey, conrad, i ve got a guy that can give you information about an operation that s going on out there in the operation narcotics-type operation and we ll use that person to get a search warrant and then we ll hit that area. when we hit the house, they never know who is the one that