Drug cartel’s ‘The Doctor’ helped run Chicago operation

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

They called him “The Doctor.” A trained physician, Enrique Avalos-Barriga was the Sinaloa cartel’s top guy in the United States. He lived in the Chicago area for nearly two years, orchestrating shipments of tons of cocaine across the Mexican border.

That was almost two decades ago, long before the Chicago Crime Commission last year branded Sinaloa leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman as public enemy No. 1. Guzman, 56, was captured Feb. 22 and is in a maximum-security prison in Mexico. He faces charges in Chicago and other cities like New York and Miami, as well as Mexico.