A federal jury on Tuesday found the reputed leader of the Wicked Town gang faction and one of his top lieutenants guilty of racketeering conspiracy involving a string of murders, shootings, robberies and narcotics trafficking.
After seven weeks of testimony from more than 100 witnesses and three days of closing arguments, a federal jury on Thursday began deliberating the fates of reputed Wicked Town gang leaders.
Dante Dockett, a longtime member of Chicago’s Wicked Town faction who has admitted to fatally shooting six people, explained to a jury why he turned on his gang.
November 1, 2021 A federal indictment unsealed today charges 13 alleged leaders, members, and associates of the Wicked Town faction of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang with participating in a criminal organization that murdered rivals and violently protected a drug-dealing operation on the West Side of Chicago.