Importing, distributing and selling illegal drugs is a big business in the U.S. A key person responsible for enabling these crimes in Chicago has lost his freedom. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison a couple of weeks ago. He's 55 years old.
Luis Garcia set up a network of warehouses and fake companies to hide thousands of kilograms of cocaine in pallets of products like laundry detergent. They were also used to mask a total of $50 million in payments to Mexican drug cartels. It's called money laundering.
At 1.0-1.5 grams per use, every kilogram would represent 670-1000. Multiply by the thousands he hid with ordinary household products, and he's given many thousands of uses of cocaine to the people of his city, his neighbors.
Conviction and sentencing of criminals is essential. A U.S. attorney puts it this way:
“Anyone who is considering partnering with the [drug] cartels to move their products from Mexico to the streets of this country must know that they will face the severest of consequences.”
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