the unit. i probably made at least 100 arrests in this area alone within the last two years. between first avenue and mannheim. a lot of your main players, a lot of your big-time drug dealers, the ones that are selling the kilos, they live in the suburbs. they don t live in the city. if someone doesn t do something about what s going on up there, it will be probably just like worse than the west side of chicago eventually because what s happening is that a lot of drug dealers from the west side are moving to this location and they re like so excited because they re making more money in this township than they were making on the west side of chicago. but the cook county sheriff s police are hoping to reverse that trend. they ve spent the past five months building cases against two dozen targets in what s called operation room service. today, mizell walls and an undercover officer traveling in the vehicle ahead of his will buy cocaine from three of their targets.
elvis confirms for police what they ve already known. with two solid street informants already in play, authorities have all the evidence they need to take down their targets. it comes to the point where you got to kind of wrap it up because you could keep going and going and it s going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. the main thing is we want to target this particular area against as many people as we know are selling in this area, and try and get as many as we can prosecuted. obviously when we start arresting these people a lot of them are going to want to talk and it s going to lead to other things. meanwhile, the sheriff s vice squad is collaring prostitutes and johns along the mannheim strip in an effort to curb the sex trade there. what s up? sell the girls out there? huh? just let me know. no, man. i just want to know. what s the story? i just rolled past. that was it, man. and what? she tried to hassle, you know. i tried to talk to her, she was
they re jumping on the opportunity. walls spent three years as a patrol officer before joining the gangs unit. the mannheim strip frustrated him even then. the residents of the area would complain to me about the issues on mannheim, but i can only do so much. i can do traffic stops. there were times when i would have binoculars and i would be watching certain houses, certain motels, you know, doing my own quote unquote, narcotics investigations even in patrol. i figured that eventually i would have opportunity to eventually do something up there. then this year i was fortunate, they have given us opportunity to branch out and to do something different. something has to be done. you got good hard-working people in these communities up there and their kids are walking down the street past prostitutes and drug dealers every day.
they set off a diversionary device. and move in. police, search warrant! got stairs going up! within moments, police take their target and his brothers into custody. there were two kids that were brought out but there s a 14-year-old in there all tatted up in different kings stuff. it s all over his arms, his back, his leg. he s 14 years old. it s part of the lifestyle. that s how they are. meanwhile, investigators have captured multiple targets on mannheim. seven? got anything on you? look at me, man, when i m talking to you. do you have anything on you? no needles, no nothing, right? okay. they make seven arrests upstairs and two more downstairs. their informant, jefferson, is on site, too, as he helped to set up the sting. he s worried because he knows that they know, everybody knows now, so if he stays up here,
him even then. the residents of the area would complain to me about the issues on mannheim. i can only do so much. i can do traffic stops. there are times i would have binoculars and watch certain houses and certain hotels. doing my own personal investigation. this year i was fortunate. they ve given us the opportunity to branch out and to do something different. something has to be done. we have good hard working people in these communities up there. their kids are working down the street past prostitution drug dealers every day. whatever he can do to get out, he s down with that.