Law enforcement officials from Chicago found themselves in the national spotlight Friday when they helped Attorney General Merrick Garland announce the disruption of an alleged illegal gun pipeline between U.S. Army soldiers and a Gangster Disciples faction here.
U.S. Attorney John Lausch and Kristen de Tineo, special agent in charge of the Chicago office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, joined Garland in Washington, D.C., as Garland explained to reporters how a deadly March 2021 mass shooting in his “hometown” of Chicago led to a newly unsealed federal indictment.
