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Brother of Chicago twins who helped take down 'El Chapo' admits to burying millions in drug proceeds under porch

CHICAGO — Chicago twins Pedro and Margarito Flores were just 16 when their older brother Armando was arrested in the late 1990s for selling narcotics out of a Cicero auto dealership. Armando was later sentenced to five years in federal prison, and his absence created a vacuum for his younger brothers to fill. Within a few years, the twins had risen to the highest levels of Chicago’s ...
Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted into a helicopter at Mexico City's airport in 2016 following his recapture by the Mexican military in Los Mochis, in Sinaloa state, Mexico.

CHICAGO — Chicago twins Pedro and Margarito Flores were just 16 when their older brother Armando was arrested in the late 1990s for selling narcotics out of a Cicero auto dealership.

Armando was later sentenced to five years in federal prison, and his absence created a vacuum for his younger brothers to fill. Within a few years, the twins had risen to the highest levels of Chicago’s drug-trafficking underworld, where their position as major

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