The second highest-ranking leader nationwide of the Latin Kings street gang was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison after being convicted at trial in 2011 of racketeering conspiracy (RICO) and related charges involving narcotics trafficking and violence
that plagued numerous neighborhoods on the city’s north, south and west sides. The defendant, VICENTE GARCIA, Jr., 35, the “Supreme Regional Inca” of the Almighty Latin King Nation, who oversaw the day-to-day illegal activities of all factions of the gang with some 10,000 members in Illinois alone, has been in federal custody since late 2008 and must serve at least 85 percent of his sentence. The sentence was imposed Friday by U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle, who also ordered five years of supervised release after Garcia’s prison term ends

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