MANHATTAN TOWNSHIP -- Police reportedly seized more than $2.5 million worth of drugs while raiding a farmhouse Monday evening.
Will County Sheriff's spokesman Pat Barry said the gang suppression unit had been targeting 16629 W. Manhattan Road for the past two weeks.
"The gang suppression unit received information regarding drug activity at this address," Barry said.
Around 5:30 p.m. Monday, gang suppression officers, sheriff's deputies and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrived and received consent to search the two-story farmhouse from Leopoldo Gudina-Barabosa, 28.
Another resident, Juan Guzman-Ramirez, 30, was present during the raid and was kept out of the house during the search.
Drugs and weapons found
"Once inside, officers found a loaded 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun lying on the floor next to the front door," Barry said. A loaded .357 revolver, a 25-caliber semi-automatic handgun, ammunition and a currency counter were also found inside, he said.
Police searched a detached garage, which housed a Chrysler Sebring and "six large U-Haul cardboard boxes containing large bundles of cannabis."
The garage also contained a heat-sealing machine, a 12-ton metal jack press set for compressing kilograms and a large digital scale, Barry said.
Officers searching the Sebring discovered a false compartment behind the rear passenger seat. Inside were 10 aluminum foil-covered bricks of cocaine worth $1.2 million, Barry said.
Police estimated the street value of the cannabis at $1.4 million.
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I am writing to you about the articles regarding the Placer County attempt to ban marijuana shops. Despite the fact that 14 states have voted to allow marijuana for medical use, the federal government chooses to ignore these laws. The people of the state of California voted for medical marijuana. I believe Placer County is still in California.
In 2007, I was stopped with 105 pounds of marijuana. The marijuana was for a cancer center, just outside of Chicago. My mother died of cancer in 1972. I was 12 years old at the time, and had I known pot would help her eat, I would have gotten it for her.
I will be incarcerated in the federal system, for 10 years, at an average of $40,000 per year. I will be on parole for another 8 years. I refused to name my contact in Chicago, and get a bunch of sick people in trouble. The judge doubled my time, because I “did not cooperate.”
I lived in Truckee and Tahoe City for 20 years. I consider it home. I hope the community supports anything that would lessen the suffering of sick people. Please speak out in support of making medical marijuana available to the people who need it. This is not about a bunch of dread-lock hippies trying to get high; they get high anyway. This is about people who could benefit from the medical uses of marijuana, and don't know where to get it, people like my mother, who probably would have died anyway, but would have died of the cancer itself, not by starving to death, as she eventually did, after 27 days without eating.
Chris Turner, Inmate No. 22458-086
Federal Prison Camp, Florence, Colo.
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Chicago Police say they seized more than $8 million in marijuana during a search of a Southwest Side business.
Police say it was found on Saturday inside a business in the 1500-block of West 46th Street. The search was part of a long-term investigation into the source of narcotics for several major street gangs.
Forty-nine-year old Hector Marroquin was charged with felony possession of cannabis. The investigation then led police to search a garage in the 5500-block of South California, where they say cocaine, weapons and more than $300,000 cash was recovered.
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