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‘Devastating blow to the Gangster Disciples’: Life sentences for 4 leaders, 32-year term for another
Frank Smith, 50, of Naperville, got a life sentence Thursday.
The charges against the four men known as the “Chapitos,” are part of a Justice Department campaign against what Attorney General Merrick Garland called “the largest, most violent and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world.” They even fed people to tigers, authorities say.
Nicholas Samudio was taken into custody when he fled from a stolen Chrysler 300 that law enforcement officials tried to stop hours after the second deadly shooting on Feb. 26.
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