Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin officials meet to discuss war on drugs

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Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin officials meet to discuss war on drugs
Chuck Goudie

"February 14, 2014 (OAK BROOK, Ill.) (WLS) -- The ABC7 I-Team has an astounding statistic from the war on drugs: metro Chicago leads the nation in emergency room visits for heroin overdose cases. Controlling this area's illicit drug problem was the topic of an unusual three-state meeting by law enforcement on Friday.

The conclave of cops and prosecutors Friday reflects the deadly surge in drug abuse and drug overdose deaths in Chicago, all of the result of an out-of-control coalition of Chicago street gangs, and primarily, one Mexican cartel.

"This is what ticks me off, why does it take a Hollywood star to bring heroin to the main stream? I don't know why but we have to seize the moment. Heroin is the number one drug of choice in the Midwest," said Jack Riley, DEA.
The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration office in Chicago has no shortage of material these days, or cases for his agents to work.

As the I-Team reported last week, heroin sales in some Chicago neighborhoods are so brisk that dealers have lines of customers waiting to buy.

"We have to disrupt them and that starts on the streets of Chicago to the jungles of Columbia, Columbia, Peru and Mexico," said Riley."


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"We have to disrupt them and that starts on the streets of Chicago to the jungles of Columbia, Columbia, Peru and Mexico," said Riley."

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Heroin is the number one drug of choice in the Midwest," said Jack Riley, DEA.

shows cartel mules running drugs through a hole in the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border just outside downtown El Paso, Texas.

In the past ten days, federal police have located the remains of at least 500 people in Mexico,

And there is obviously a ready market with an appetite for their products.

This is madness.. end the utterly failed drug war.