On December 22, 1917, with the majorities well in excess of the two-third requirement, Congress submitted to the 18th Amendment to the states. This amendment prohibited "the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors". By January 1919, ratification was complete

Capone's net worth and net expenditures were far in excess of his income in the years in which Capone had not filed

On May 16th, 1929, Al Capone was on his way back to Chicago from a conference in Atlantic City. Capone was detained in Philadelphia for a few hours between trains. He was recognized by two detectives and searched. The detectives found a pistol on Capone and, within sixteen hours, convicted him to one year's imprisonment. This meant that, until his release on March 17th, 1930, his brother Ralph Capone carried out Capone's orders in his absence. Ralph's headquarters was located in the Montmartre Cafe in Cicero, Illinois. Ness installed a wiretap in the Cafe and discovered Capone's plan to reopen the brewery on South Wabash Ave. Ness waited several days until all the new equipment was installed and the brewery was online, then he made his move.

One of the problems "The Untouchables" faced was that their key source of information, the sales office for beer and liquor, was located in the Liberty Hotel, which was a place too difficult to wiretap. Ness's undercover man, George Thomas, planted false information about an upcoming raid on the sales office. The location of the sale's office was quickly moved and its new location was quickly tapped.

As the Capone operatives became more cautious and secretive about their operations, it was harder for Ness to ferret out the location of the breweries and distilleries. Most of his information came from rival gangs, but more often their best information came from wiretaps and an undercover agent that Ness had inside the Capone mob.

Inside was a huge room with two trucks half loaded with barrels. There was only one problem, there wasn't a single soul in the place. Every worker in the brewery had fled into the street through an escape route in the floor. The raid was still considered a success because the agents had confiscated nineteen 1,500-gallon vats, 140 barrels of beer and two trucks. The total estimated value of the night was $75,000.

For nearly two years, the Capone and Weiss mobs and their allies waged war on each other. Weiss led two attempts to assassinate Capone, but Capone survived and, in the end, it was Weiss who was shot. This left the North Side gang in the hands of George "Bugs" Moran. Capone was now the dominant mobster in Chicago.

After the setback at the brewery raid, Ness decided that if he needed a new weapon. He acquired a 10-ton flatbed truck with a reinforced steel bumper that covered the whole front radiator. It was also outfitted with scaling ladders so that Ness's men could get on the roofs of the breweries.

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