Four Corner Hustlers street gang

Eight men with ties to a street gang were ordered held without bond today for being part of a drug distribution network that was selling drugs on the West Side since 2008, FBI and Chicago police officials said.Six of the men were arrested on Tuesday, a seventh man was in custody on unrelated charges and an eighth man turned himself in to police today, Robert D. Grant, special agent-in-charge of the Chicagooffice of the FBI said in a press release.All of the men are suspected of being members or associates of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang, Grant said. The men were arrested as part of "Operation Snatched," a coordinated effort by federal, state and local law enforcement to target street gangs running drug distribution networks in the Chicago area, Grant said.

The men were charged with attempted possession or possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, crack cocaine, the FBI said. Both of the charges are felonies and each faces a minimum of 10 years in prison if convicted, according to the FBI.Investigators electronically intercepted telephone conversations, used surveillance techniques and conducted undercover missions to investigate the network whose turf was bounded by the Eisenhower Expressway to the south, North Avenue to the north, Laramie Avenue to the east and Austin Boulevard to the west, officials said.
The  residents who were charged include: Milton Bills, 32, of the 5800 block of West Ohio Street; Clarence Johnson, 45, of the 700 block of East 50th Street; Terrance C. Jones of the 1400 block of South Christiana Avenue; Damon Westbrook of the 100 block of East 49th Street; Frederick Taylor of the 1200 block of North Mason Avenue; and Eric Ollison, 26, whose address was not available but who is in state prison on an unrelated conviction.Also charged were Andre T. Beard, 29, of Glendale Heights and Dominique Finley, 34, of Bellwood.FBI officials credited the police department's efforts."Without the expertise and intimate knowledge of gang operations that CPD investigators offer, it would be almost impossible to achieve the results announced today," Grant said in the release.The men appeared today before Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole in  and were formerly charged. Cole ordered the men held without bond and were to be housed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center  , according to the FBI.