DEA agent in Chicago charged with conspiring to traffic guns and drugs with international gang
CHICAGO - A former Evanston, Ill., police detective has been accused in a sweeping federal indictment of joining the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration so he could protect a vicious Puerto Rico-based drug organization responsible for numerous killings and other violence.
Fernando Gomez, 41, was arrested Tuesday morning at the DEA's Chicago field office, authorities said.
Hours later, he was led into U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Cox's courtroom in a T-shirt and blue jeans and shackled at the ankles. As prosecutors began to detail the allegations, several of Gomez's
