Man who used Naperville warehouse as part of drug pipeline from Mexico to Chicago gets 25 years in prison – Chicago Tribune

The owner of a Texas trucking company that used warehouses in Naperville and Sugar Grove as part of its drug pipeline from Mexico to Chicago has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.

Jose Farias, a 44-year-old resident of Mexico whose business was based in McAllen, Texas, worked with truck drivers in 2015 and 2016 to transport dozens of kilograms of narcotics to the Chicago area by hiding them in the hollowed-out wheel axles of semi-trailers, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago.

The drivers distributed the drugs to the sellers and hid the money in their trucks to drive them back to Texas and Mexico, the press release said.

In addition to the warehouses in Naperville and Sugar Grove, Farias also used an abandoned auto lot in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood and an auto repair shop in Channahon to carry out his crimes, officials said. When police officers searched the locations, they found 54 kilograms of heroin, about 17 kilograms of cocaine and $630,200 in cash, the report said.

Farias was found guilty of drug conspiracy and drug possession by a jury in Chicago federal court in 2021. The verdict was handed down Monday by U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey, the press release said.