Cocaine ring arrests in northwest suburbs - chicagotribune.com

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Cocaine ring arrests in northwest suburbs - chicagotribune.com: "'Dial-a-Rock' by police, the ring operated out of a 'stash house' in Schaumburg, where kilos of cocaine, purchased for $28,000 apiece, were brought in to be cooked into crack or packaged as powder cocaine, authorities said in court Thursday.
Operators would receive orders by phone — as many as hundreds each day — and runners, many recruited from Jalisco, Mexico, would deliver to customers, sometimes in quantities totaling a kilo per week, officials said.
The man alleged to be the kingpin of the ring, Ector Cortez, 40, of the 2800 block of Algonquin Road in Rolling Meadows, was ordered held in lieu of $1 million cash bail Thursday on charges of unlawful criminal drug conspiracy and unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, authorities said."