one informant alone shoulders enough risk by working with authorities, but a team of two enormously upped the stakes as each entrusts his live with the other. this investigator and this pair of informants who we have been calling pancho and lefty started an operation to nab a drug ring on chicago s westside. one week later. gunfire erupts in avondale park, a neighborhood on the northwest side. bullets strike two girls and a 7-year-old and a 2-year-old, piercing one in the back and grazing the othered in head. both survive their injuries and police capture the alleged gunmen, a maniac disciple who was trying to shoot at a rival and missed. this was an outrageous act. chicago s new superintendent declares war on the latin
me two guns. this is how your case will go away. it was a lot of guys on the block. a lot of people see them get hit and him get let go. we will see what happens. if he doesn t come through it won t be hard to catch him. in the weeks that follow, the suspect decides to take his chances with authorities. he never turns over the guns. we will be seen at the meetings. after the failed police raid, investigators sandoval and carpenter follow-up with their informants. pancho and lefty claim that the gang moved its weapons to another location a day before