Most Wanted Thanksgiving's Day Jive Turkey Arrested!

January 7, 2008

CHICAGO IL NEWS -- Our Most Wanted Thanksgiving's Holiday Jive Turkey, Vicente Garcia, 30, was arrested in late December in the city of Tamazula, Mexico after information surfaced on his location. Garcia has since been turned over to FBI - Houston, where he is awaiting extradition back to Chicago, Illinois to face justice for his alleged crimes.

Vicente Garcia had a $10,000 reward offered for his arrest. Garcia's story starts on the South side of Chicago, in the neighborhood of the Little Village, known for its shopping areas and restaurants, which attract residents from all over Chicago to enjoy its hospitality. The neighborhood also has been heavily influenced by its strong Hispanic population and culture that it is often referred to as "La Villita." However, in every community there are those people that seem to be completely out for themselves, willing to sacrifice anything good to justify their own ends -- yeah, "Thugs."

In Chicago, Illinois during the 1940s, several young Puerto Rican men organized a club to help each other overcome the problems of racism and prejudice they were facing as newly arriving immigrants. Adopting the slogan, "To rise above racism and to form an organization of Kings' to better serve themselves and their communities," the club unfortunately fell short of their slogan within a generation. The club took up a different direction, and its members became a violent gang, "The Almighty Latin Kings (ALKN)," whose crimes include robbery, murder, extortion, and drug sales.

Routinely investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Latin Kings street gang where once again infiltrated in "Operation Pesadilla," which targeted the leadership of the notorious street gang.

On September 15, 2007, the leaders of the Latin Kings, called "Incas," gathered from two dozen sections of the 26th Street Region of the Latin Kings street gang. Each member was physically searched for law enforcement recording devices by a "Nation Enforcer," who was a trusted member since 1993. Once the meeting commenced, Vicente Garcia, of Bolingbrook, the alleged Regional Officer or top leader of the 26th Street Region, ordered the Incas for the 24 sections under his command to sell a quarter-ounce of powder cocaine twice a month to fund the "Nation Box," a kitty that the regional hierarchy consisting of Garcia, Jose L. Guzman, Victor Aviles and the Nation Enforcer used to purchase weapons, drugs, and pay for funeral and attorney fees for gang members. But, what the Incas failed to realize is that the Nation Enforcer had secretly begun cooperating with the FBI and Chicago Police just months before and was wearing a wire. He was the Confidential Witness (CW1).

Five times in October and November 2007, the Incas or "Casiques," second in command, of each 24 Latin Kings sections in the 26th Street Region, located in Chicago's Little Village community, met the CW in a parked van and were captured on audio and video recordings either receiving a quarter-ounce of booger sugar and paying $200 to the ALKN "Nation Box" fund. The Incas had become Colombian Foot Soldiers selling crack cocaine to their brothers and sisters.

Vicente Garcia allegedly devised and directed the drug distribution plan, which was intended to generate $4,800 twice a month for the gang. In fact, in October and November 2007, the CW1 paid Garcia more than $17,000 from the proceeds of each section's periodic sales of a quarter-ounce of crack coca쭡.

In September 2008, Vicente Garcia along with 24 other defendants where charged in a federal criminal complaint in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Eastern Illinois, for:

"Knowingly and intentionally conspired to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute in excess of 500 grams of mixtures containing cocaine, a Schedule II Narcotic Drug Controlled Substance, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841(a)(1)."

During the Chicago FBI's Joint Task Force on Gangs arrest sweep upon the complaint's release, Vicente Garcia escaped arrest. During November, the FBI offered up to $10,000 for information leading to Garcia's arrest. At that point we decided to make Garcia our Thanksgiving's Day Most Wanted Turkey  Jive Turkey that is! Well now he is behind bars for the New Year!

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