By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com

The feds are accusing an ex-Evanston, Ill. cop of joining the DEA so he could conspire to traffic guns and narcotics with a violent international gang responsible for numerous killings, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Fernando Gomez, 41, was arrested Tuesday.

A superseding indictment unsealed in New York charged Gomez with racketeering conspiracy for his alleged affiliation with the Organizacion de Narcotraficantes Unidos, a conglomeration of drug traffickers based in Puerto Rico, the Trib reports.

The gang is accused of participating in at least eight killings dating to 2006.