![]() Saul Rodriguez’s crew dressed up as Al Capone’s gang for crew member Fares Umar’s themed wedding | (Handout) Where lesser dealers might have settled unpaid debts with bullets, the Flores twins simply cut bad debtors off to avoid police attention. ![]() With that typical, drug-dealer extravagance, though, came some uncommon restraint. With the near-monopoly of Chicago’s drug supply came riches and toys: custom chopper motorcycles, Lexuses and Bentleys, and their own real estate empire. Soon, the amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin they would be moving would dwarf anything Rodriguez had ever seen.īefore they turned 25, they controlled the Sinaloa cartel’s distribution network across the Midwest and into Canada, moving an estimated $1.8 billion in drugs through Chicago. But through their father, they had a link directly to the Mexican cartels. They started out as customers of Rodriguez, purchasing 15 to 20 kilos at a time. Then he got in trouble with the law, too, so the twins learned the value of discretion. Their dad went to prison and their older brother, Armando, took over the family business. When they were just 8, the twins rode with their father as he drove from Mexico to Chicago in a vehicle packed with marijuana. From a young age, they were groomed for a life amid drug world royalty.
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