Melrose Park raid yields 550 pounds of cocaine, authorities say
$25 million haul called largest in 7 years for Cook County sheriff's police
In one of its largest drug seizures in years, a Cook County sheriff's team recovered 550 pounds of cocaine worth $25 million from a semi truck in the parking lot of a Melrose Park plant, authorities said.
The
announcement from the sheriff's police drug unit came Monday, the same
day that bail was set at $1 million each for the three men arrested and
charged in the bust.
"This is a significant seizure for law
enforcement. This puts a dent in the trafficking of cocaine in the city
of Chicago and the Midwest area," said Cook County Sheriff's Police
spokeswoman Penny Mateck.
Jose Reyes, 49, of the 100 block of Country Court, Bolingbrook; Cosme Ruano-Reyes, 36, of the 3100 block of South Keeler Avenue, Chicago; and Javier Huerta, 47, of El Paso, Texas, were arrested and each charged with felony possession of a controlled substance, Mateck said.
The three were men arrested Saturday morning in the parking lot of
Reyes' Melrose Park business, Solar Deburring Inc., at 2001 Cornell
Ave., she said.
The sheriff's High Intensity Drug Trafficking
Area team—composed of sheriff's deputies, federal drug-enforcement
agents and police officers from Chicago, Palos Park and Rolling Meadows—made the bust after getting a tip, Mateck said. Melrose Park police assisted with the operation, she said.
The
drugs came from the southwest border of the United States and were to
be distributed throughout the Midwest, said Mateck, who added that
Chicago is the Midwest hub for illegal drug distribution.
The
drugs were stashed in a refrigerated trailer inside frozen boxes of
cattle hooves to be used for meat. Mateck said officers were suspicious
of the shipment because "there did not seem to be any type of
legitimate business connection" between a plant that grinds burrs off
of metal parts and a shipment of frozen meat.
Officers watched
as three men retrieved the cocaine from packages in the trailer and one
of them cut one open to confirm its contents, police said.
Mateck said it was the sheriff police's largest drug bust in seven years.
jkimberly@tribune.com
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George will be disappointed this christmas, without his "snow"...
Yeah, W on the bottle and the crank again is probably why he, the Republicrats, and the Dumbacrats are constantly telling us how ALL illegals are "just coming here to work".
What do you think the odds are that Mr. Reyes, Mr. Ruano-Reyes, and Mr. Huerta are illegal aliens? Yeah I know, I'm profiling - that's an evil word for progressives - but put your politics aside for a moment.
What do you think the odds are?
This one made me think of John Cappas and Brain Bafia, both of whom I knew. Bafia since grade school his mother was one of my teachers and we went to the same church and hung out with a lot of the same kids). Cappas only because of everyone else and his girlfriend I knew well as we grew up in the same area and hung out with the same peple. After Cappas was convicted, she ended up marrying Dan Hampton (yes, the great Chicago Bears lineman).
Anyway, I feel a bizarre connection.
I also feel a connection with all of this to Drew Peterson... Had to tell someone!
Laangel: "What do you think the odds are that Mr. Reyes, Mr. Ruano-Reyes, and Mr. Huerta are illegal aliens?"
The odds, I would say are close to zero...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26143665/
"Jose Reyes, 49, of Country Court in Bolingbrook; Cosme Ruano-Reyes, 36, of South Keeler Avenue in Chicago; and Javier Huerta, 47, of El Paso, Texas, are each charged with one count of possession of a controlled substance over 900 grams, according to a release from the Cook County Sheriff’s office."
Huh?...Are you trying to infer that because their booking slips give a U.S. address that means they're citizens or have residency?
Do you have a part-time gig working for ICE?<LOL>
Actually, I pulled the tax records on Reyes and he's a legitimate, long time, US citizen. I don't have access to Texas' tax records but I'm certain a quick people background search will answer that question.
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With the way current media and the public is today, I am sure if they had been illegal aliens, that would have been in the first paragraph of the stories, Much less two different stories from different sources.
Ed Zachary!