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Lake County's highly developed highway infrastructure and proximity to Chicago, a national-level distribution center for cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, make it an ideal transportation and transshipment center for illicit drugs. Millions of tons of commercial truck freight and more than one million commercial and passenger vehicles transit the HIDTA region each week. Highly organized Mexican DTOs use independent commercial trucks and private vehicles to transport multihundred-kilogram quantities of cocaine and marijuana and multikilogram quantities of heroin and methamphetamine, often concealed in hidden compartments and commingled in shipments of legitimate goods, from locations along the Southwest Border and from Chicago into and through Lake County. Mexican DTOs increasingly transport polydrug shipments of cocaine, marijuana, and heroin into the Lake County HIDTA region for distribution to markets throughout the eastern United States. Although some quantities of illicit drugs are offloaded in Lake County for local distribution, most are destined for other drug markets. For example, 25 pounds of ice methamphetamine destined for Chicago from Indianapolis, Indiana, were seized by the Lake County Drug Task Force on Interstate 65 in Lake County in March 2008. The ice methamphetamine was concealed inside a hidden compartment of a private vehicle driven by a Mexican male who was accompanied by his wife and three children.
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