About thirty people were arrested in Chicago during a RAID by police to avoid bloodshed in a Day of Remembrance in the city. This was reported by representatives of the Chicago police Department (CPD) during Saturday’s press conference.
During a weekend on Memorial Day in 2016 in the city in the shootings was killed 6 people, and another 63 were wounded.
According to police, the arrests will continue during the weekend.
«Our goal is to identify people who are going to create problems in the city, and to make the weekend they spent in cook County jail», — said the head of Department on fight against organized crime Anthony Riccio.
Riccio added that during the RAID in the block of 2500 North Oak Park seized more than 119 kilograms of heroin, during a RAID in the district in South Sacramento – more than 181 pounds of marijuana. In addition, were seized two pistols during the RAID in the Calumet District.
Saturday’s press conference was held in the in the 1400 block of North Sedgwick, on the 11th of April for the shooting has suffered a 66-year-old man and two 12-year-old boy. All three of them were accidental victims of the clashes of the two gangs over drug trafficking. Fortunately, the victims managed to survive.
According to the speaker CPD Anthony Guglielmi, it is unknown whether they managed to arrest during the raids direct arrow 11 April, but members of this gang is among those arrested.
All city patrol 1300 police officers is 400 more than last year, say in CPD.
