Between December 2020 and April 2021, the defendants allegedly conspired to buy and deliver the firearms to the Chicago area in order to “facilitate the on-going violent disputes between the Pocket Town Gangster Disciples and their rival gangs.”
Chicago gang members have been working with a trio of enlisted U.S. Army soldiers to funnel illegal firearms into Chicago that have been used in shootings which left multiple people injured or dead across the city, federal officials alleged Friday.U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland joined Chicago police and local federal officials in Washington D.C.
Two others alleged to be part of the conspiracies, Khalief Whitfield and Dontae Thomas, have since died as a result of gang violence, the feds said. These deals were documented across text messages included in the indictment. In one instance, Miller allegedly sent Lowry a picture of two firearms and said he could sell those to him for $550. Lowry allegedly responded “OK can you get them to hold it until Friday? I got to get my bread up” and Miller later responded “Yeah I’ll buy em and hold em for u g.”
The feds alleged those guns have been used in multiple shootings across Chicago, including a mass shooting in the 2500 block of West 79th Street in March 2021 that left one man dead and seven other wounded.
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