The murder of Guillermo “Montes” Jiminez-Flores
happened thousands of miles away in Mexico City, but prosecutors say it
was driven by the much less well understood multi-million dollar racket
in fake IDs, right here on Chicago’s Southwest side.
Even as Illinois officials prepare to issue the
state’s first legitimate drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants, thanks
to a new law that may render the lucrative black market in fake IDs
obsolete, jurors in federal court were this week walked through dramatic
wiretapped conversations leading up to Montes’ murder.
“Let’s do it once and for all,” alleged hit-man
Gerardo Salazar-Rodriguez told Julio Leija-Sanchez as he hid outside the
victim’s home armed with a 9mm handgun, watching his wife and kids on
the night of March 31, 2007.
“Well yeah, once and for all,” Leija-Sanchez
replied on his cell phone in Chicago. “Why the **** just you’re there
messing around; and honestly, you guys have taken too long, man.”
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