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Sun-Times: A Maywood Drug Dealer’s Arrest Led Feds To ‘El Chapo’

Friday, January 26, 2018|| By Local News Curator || @maywoodnews 

Featured image: Christopher Baines, left, and Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. 

According to a Chicago Sun-Times report published Jan. 28, the arrest of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera — one of the biggest drug kingpins in modern history and one of the world’s most wanted men — was sparked roughly a decade ago, when a Maywood man sold some drugs to an informant.

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Lives

Village People: J.W. Scott, 86, Gets His Due

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 || By Community Editor || @maywoodnews 

Featured image: J.W. Scott, center, is presented with an honorary street sign bearing his name by Bellwood Mayor Andre Harvey on Nov. 18. | Courtesy Mayor Andre Harvey

J.W. Scott, the 86-year-old founder of People Cab Co. in Bellwood, was recently featured in a John Fountain column in the Chicago Sun-Times — the article the result of a Nov. 18 street naming ceremony. Henceforth and forevermore, a portion of St. Charles Rd. (near 30th Ave.) will be “Honorary J.W. Scott Ave.”

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Crime, Policing

A Nov. 29 Aurora Carjacking Ends in Bellwood Arrest

Sunday, December 3, 2017 || By Local News Curator || @maywoodnews 

Featured image: Taytianna B. Jones | Kane County sheriff’s office

A woman and two juveniles were arrested in Bellwood on Nov. 29 by Bellwood Police Department officers in connection with a carjacking that happened earlier that day in Aurora, according to multiple media reports.

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