know, and it could be next year or next month, and we pick right up. he don t want to know nothing about it. he just he s not interested in the lifestyle. and i m not going to say he want to go somewhere and get him a cottage with a white picket fence, but he s not involved in this, you know. but that s in my longest daydreams. from our standpoint, these are dangerous guys. we had to take them off the street. we wanted them to go away for the rest of their lives. from the family standpoint, that s still their son or their brother. they love them no matter what they did. i think sometimes it s not only tragic, but sometimes it s a relief for them, because they know what they re doing. their son or their brother, whoever it might be, they know they re in rockford dealing dope.
i asked my husband at least four or five times what did he say? did he say 42 years? did he say 42 years? between about 2001 up through 2005 there was a growing presence of hardened chicago gang members that were coming out to rockford and taking over
working in the narcotics unit and my brother was in the gang unit and we were working both angles of it and barry came to me one day and said i gotten a idea, do you think this will work? he told me he had an informant and the informant had been approached and asked to rent a house and then the house would be used for a drug house and they wanted to put in video and audioment i said yeah, i think we can make that happen. this is where the house was. the house was donated to us. it was scheduled for demolition. that s the spot right there. and it was pretty much disgusting when we got it but they were kind enough to just let us do whatever we wanted to do. we parked in this driveway and carried lots and lots of carpeting and junk inside. we chose the location because at the time the targets that we re looking at were looking for an east side spot. this is our near east side of town in rockford, they were
the drug business. word began to spread about this guy named duck and members of the titanic stones. we kept hearing this name duck, that he was from chicago, that he was putting a lot of dope here in rockford. just a young guy but he had a reputation. people were afraid of him, just a little guy. the talk on the street and informant information was this group run by duck, the titanic stones, were trying to take over the drug trade in rockford and were moving real strong. when they arrived here in rockford there was definitely a power struggle, chicago versus rockford. we d have our robberies, our shootings there have been murders here. every so often somebody comes into power just like anything else in life, any business or any something always rises to
the agents in chicago had to immediately take action, which required them to pursue the vehicle that the shots had come out of. duck could see these cars suddenly come from nowhere, and he put it together right then a there. he knew he was under surveillance, and he suspected other things might be wrong back in rockford. he then placed a call that we intercepted into the dope house in which he warned the individuals there that he thought he was being followed by federal investigators and that they should get out of the house immediately. they scrambled back to rockford that night, and duck,