2 Kilos Of Cocaine Sent To Crest Hill Man By Postal Service: Police
CREST HILL — A 23-year-old Crest Hill man who lives in the 1100 block of Burry Court now finds himself facing drug charges at the Will County after receiving a package sent through the mail containing 2 kilos of cocaine, court documents show.
Last week, on Aug. 13, the Will County Cooperative Police Assistance Team was contacted by the U.S. Postal Service about a suspicious package being sent from Texas to a residence in Crest Hill, the resident of Byron Garcia-Gonzalez.
Postal employees intercepted the package and obtained a search warrant to open it, discovering 2 kilos of cocaine. The postal employees repackaged the parcel and Crest Hill area police officers obtained a search warrant for Gonzalez’s residence in the 1100 block of Burry.
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The search warrant was carried out last Thursday. A postal inspector agreed to serve in an undercover capacity and delivered the parcel, leaving it on the front door step and walking away. The inspector later drove back to the house and saw that the package was already removed from the doorstep.
At that point, the police set up surveillance, waiting for an alert notification of the package being opened. The police saw a woman exit and enter Gonzalez’s house through the front door several days. A short time later, Gonzalez pulled into the driveway driving a black Jeep Wrangler.
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He went inside his house. The parcel’s wiring device notified the police drug agents of the package’s movement and shortly afterward, the package was opened.
Several police barged inside, and they found the defendant, notifying him that the package contained a Class X felony amount of cocaine. At the Illinois State Police headquarters, Gonzalez was read his rights and gave the following statement that was translated into English by a member of the Kendall County Cooperative Police Assistance Team.
“Gonzalez got home and some lady told him that there was a package. Gonzalez took the package and attempted to open … Gonzalez has dealt with cocaine before due to previously dealing and recognized the odor of cocaine,” court documents outlined. “At this time Gonzalez took out white packaging from the box and it was this time agents made entry into the residence.
“Gonzalez heard yelling, got scared and threw the narcotics in the air. Gonzalez denied any acknowledgement of what was inside the package or who the package belonged to. When asked why he opened it, Gonzalez stated in his country they open any package and that it doesn’t matter who it belonged to. It should be noted the purple dye that was placed on the kilo of cocaine wrappers were all over Gonzalez’s hands and shirt.”
The cocaine packages weighed 2,454.6 grams.
“The people pray that this honorable court deny the defendant pretrial release,” stated prosecutor Steven Platek in his petition to deny pretrial release for the young man in Crest Hill.
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Instead, one of Will County’s newest judges, Gabriel Orenic, who took the bench in April, ruled in favor of Gonzalez. Although Gonzalez is facing a detention-eligible offense, Judg eOrenic ordered Gonzalez to remain on electronic monitoring and surrender the passport to Will County’s pretrial services
After spending more than two days in the Will County Jail, Gonzalez was let go on Aug. 18, jail logs indicate.
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