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CHICAGO (AP) - An illegal lab in Mexico produced some of the powerful painkiller that killed dozens of people in Chicago last year who ingested with heroin, according to newly unsealed indictments.
Two drug conspiracy indictments unsealed Thursday name 13 people in Mexico and seven members of Chicago's Mickey Cobras street gang.
Gang members were accused of getting the painkiller, fentanyl, mixing it with heroin and selling the combination in city public housing complexes, killing at least five people. Nationwide, hundreds have died from heroin laced with fentanyl since 2005. In Cook County, officials attributed more than 200 deaths to fentanyl-laced heroin.
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