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Yo what's good evil streets fam you know the deal we back at it again with another banger shout out to all my day ones the members and subscribers locked in daily y'all the backbone of this whole operation the reason we still rising anyone trying to push their music brand or business hit the inbox evil streets media at gmail.com we can work something out real talk I see all the cash app love too and if you trying to support what we doing pull up to evil streets TV on cash app every dollar goes right back into feeding the channel aight y'all let's dive straight into this gangster chronicles sweet Bobby Collins the come up the reign and the downfall of Chicago's heroin highway kingpin Levant sweet Bobby Collins moved through life like he owned the whole damn game perched up on the sixth floor of his luxury condo over in Lincoln Park he'd post up staring out at Lake Michigan watching them waters sparkle under that morning light while he orchestrated the powder flow through Chicago's bloodstream that condo wasn't just where he rested his head nah that was his fortress Italian marble covering the floors butter soft leather furniture walls decorated with abstract art that nobody but Bobby acted like they understood the type of crib where the grind felt like ancient history not something you dealing with every single day downstairs in the garage his pride and joy sat waiting cherry red Maserati Gran Turismo spotless gleaming purring like a beast every time he slid it onto Lake Shore Drive that three hundred a month parking tab was pocket change to a man pushing millions in product annually but sweet Bobby wasn't out here flashing like them rappers or them block captains who flame out quick he didn't need to flex for the gram his power ran deeper quieter his name got whispered when somebody needed weight the type of name you didn't speak loud on the corner unless you was looking for problems because Bobby had transformed heroin into a branded kingdom his product came stamped orange basketballs purple ladies green playboy bunnies Hershey's kisses black panda bears every stamp a guarantee to the fiends that what they copping was certified his primary pipeline ran through the thirty seven hundred block of West Grenshaw out in North Lawndale that strip of pavement was more than territory it was machinery an open air marketplace where dope moved with factory floor precision special report the heroin highway that's what plenty call the Eisenhower Expressway the route a rising number of suburban teenagers take into the city to cop a potent form of heroin the drug is arriving here from Mexico it is cheap highly addictive and in certain cases deadly at two thirty in the afternoon business is booming off the Eisenhower the winning and holy say this woman is about to pick up heroin from two suspected dealers in a car just twenty feet from our hidden camera inside she grabs the order for customers parked nearby she busted a u-ray analyst this young woman is so eager to buy she pulls a u-turn right in front of this police state yeah her SUV is registered in west suburban Laund she just served up there the DuPage County Metropolitan Enforcement Group says a growing number of users here are teenagers from the suburbs Hinsdale from Lombard from Elmhurst during the past year master sergeant Steve Lone has seen a seven hundred percent increase in heroin seizures into Page County as seven hundred percent increase yes in heroin yes it's astounding I live in Elmhurst twenty year old Chris made the drive from DuPage down the Ike many times as a teenager a road kids called the heroin highway first off K town where the streets start with K in end with a ten dollar dose of H forty minutes there and back and I'd be high at the house at first I was kind of scared I never been to the ghetto but then you get used to it you know you actually get excited to be there if you're white so yell at you to park just like a drive through give them the money they give you the dope and then just drive off it is a completely different user base that we're seeing being attracted to it the DEA's Jack Riley says the heroin is coming from Mexican cartels white cheap and smooth enough to snort not the black tar junkies cook in spoons and have to shoot with a needle much more cosmetically cleaner kids now can snort it and smoke it much like cocaine is it as addictive when it's snorted as it is when it's injected absolutely heroin's heroin and just as deadly the director of the Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy at Roosevelt University says heroin overdoses have doubled and tripled in some collar counties in just three years how does heroin kill kids it stops them from breathing it slows the breathing down until you don't have enough oxygen in your body and your heart stops beating it's gonna double in another five years a fact retired your cop of police officer John Roberts knows all too well he moved his family to Will County to get away from drugs in the city but his youngest son Billy still got hooked on heroin the kids just don't understand it to the parents I think the parents do but they don't think it's in the suburbs and little did I know how many drugs were getting into this neighborhood one night Billy's friend called the Roberts to say their son wouldn't wake up Billy was nineteen I lost my boy who I lost my heart and nothing could bring him back Chris could easily have been Billy but he got busted went to jail and to rehab now nine months clean and sober he recently shared his story at this drug forum in his hometown if it wasn't for jail either be dead or I don't know Billy Roberts did not survive but his parents are speaking out to keep other kids alive back in K town there is a lot of work to be done police say that pickup is from Julian in the young man inside just schooled and now he's got his foot off okay he's younger yeah these kids don't know what they're getting into Billy though and they have no concept as to what's in it what it's been cut with and its purity Billy Roberts began by smoking heroin Chris started out snorting it eventually both got addicted very quickly wanted a stronger high and switched to needles we'll have much more on the story in the weeks ahead if you want more information go to our website NBC Chicago dot com and search heroin I'm a great an extremely dangerous neighborhood is gone tonight after a huge drug bust operation GI Joe cracked a massive heroin distribution ring agents arrested more than thirty people they confiscated twelve guns and tens of thousands of dollars along with two cars one of them this Maserati police believe forty one shootings and four murders may be connected to that heroin ring had operated out of the North Lawndale neighborhood on the city's west side Natalie Bobby joins us live from the Hagerby headquarters how do they crack the ring Natalie well done Chicago police work with a half dozen other agencies for two years to track this heroin ring every day a person in the Chicago area dies from a heroin overdose those forty two people who are charged are responsible for getting that drug onto the streets they welcomed me up they welcomed me up at precious Archer's door around seven this morning Chicago police officers and DEA agents they have pictures of people basically actually did we see you know that we see this person forty two people in all now facing state or federal drug charges for allegedly supplying and distributing heroin near schools a YMCA and a park Chicago police superintendent Gary McCarthy calls it one of the worst narcotics locations in the city we believe that the gun violence in the area was a direct byproduct of this particular narcotics location the organization obtaining heroin from Mexico generating a quarter of a million dollars every month this is one of those locations that we always talk about a drive up location on the west side where people come in from suburbs buy narcotics and return the investigation found thirty three year old James Trell triplet was the heroin wholesaler working along the thirty seven hundred block of West Grenshaw Street hiring sales people and transporting the drug authorities also say the heroin was diluted to increase profits I never knew that it was like all day long I'm like you say forty some people know it you would never know to prevent another heroin supplier hitting these streets McCarthy says the city will work with the neighborhood to make it a cleaner and safer place Cory Moore a twenty year resident of the area has a few suggestions clean up these lights build some new centers some more buildings you know get the right people in here that's all for jobs and this neighborhood would be high you know but like you say you got to start first with the tracking if they got to come through and clean up that's what they got to do they're so beautiful the agencies are still working to find ten other people who were charged some might be incarcerated others still at large which is certainly a concern for the residents we spoke with tonight dawn shift workers lookouts stash runners all playing their part in Bobby's silent symphony of sin cars from the suburbs lined up like it was a drive through cats called that stretch of the Eisenhower Expressway the heroin highway and Bobby controlled the toll booth on the ground the man who kept everything glued together was James Trell Triplet Trell was younger hungrier but loyal to the bone he ran the Grenshaw operation like a general Trell knew every alley every window that served as a lookout post every cop who might be bought

But the walls were closing in the feds had been watching watching the steady stream of money the constant flow of customers the violence that erupted when territory got disputed Federal agents and Chicago police built their case brick by brick two years of surveillance two years of patience waiting for the moment when they could bring the whole operation down and when they moved they moved hard and fast dawn raids on multiple locations thirty plus arrests the cherry red Maserati seized as evidence the luxury condo in Lincoln Park raided and locked down the abstract art on the walls suddenly seemed hollow the Italian marble floors just a monument to blood money and broken lives

When the indictment came down forty two people faced federal charges for their roles in the heroin empire the investigation revealed the operation was moving a quarter million dollars a month generating the kind of wealth that only comes from other people's addiction and desperation they found twelve guns ammunition enough for war and cash stacked so high it would make most people's heads spin but for every dollar seized for every gun recovered there was a Billy Roberts a Chris a family destroyed a future stolen the heroin that Bobby's operation pushed onto Chicago streets didn't discriminate it found its way to the suburbs through the Eisenhower Expressway the heroin highway where kids who thought they were invincible learned too late that addiction has no zip code no respect for address no mercy for the innocent

Sweet Bobby Collins the king of the Grenshaw strip the man who thought he was untouchable the boss man who orchestrated an empire from his penthouse fortress facing decades behind federal bars his dreams of that cherry red Maserati and lakefront views now replaced by concrete cells and bars because that's what the game does it breaks you it takes everything and leaves you with nothing but time to think about what you lost and who you hurt along the way

And that's the legacy of Sweet Bobby Collins not innovation not success but a cautionary tale written in the wreckage of lives destroyed the neighborhoods hollowed out by addiction the families shattered by overdose the kids who never made it home because some man decided that profit mattered more than people that the rush of the hustle was worth the cost of countless casualties Sweet Bobby's empire is gone now scattered to the wind his name a footnote in case files a warning to the next generation that thinks they can build a kingdom on other people's suffering because the streets don't forgive and the feds don't forget and in the end there's no penthouse in the world that can protect you from justice that's evil streets fam the real cost of the game revealed