Chicago Police Seize More Than $1.2 Million in Marijuana, Charge Two Men in Southwest Side Drug Bust

Chicago Police seized more than $1.2 million in marijuana and charged two men with possession of cannabis after recovering nearly 500 pounds of pot from a Southwest Side garage on Thursday.

Police also seized three guns, one vehicle and more than $52,000 in cash as part of the investigation, which began earlier this week when police received information about a shipment of marijuana being distributed by unknown individuals using a black 1999 Chrysler 300.

Police traced the vehicle to the 5200 block of South Kenneth Avenue and set up a surveillance. On Thursday, they observed two men enter the vehicle and drive to a garage in the 3400 block of West 72nd Place. After a short time, the men exited the garage with a large bundle of suspected marijuana and drove off.

The vehicle was stopped a few blocks away, and both men were placed under arrest after police recovered 18 pounds of marijuana from the vehicle. Police then received a consent to search the garage, where another 445 pounds of marijuana was discovered. A subsequent search of a residence in the 5200 block of South Kenneth turned up an additional 907 grams of marijuana, three handguns and $52,666 in cash. Police estimated the street value of the marijuana at $1,265,523.

Jose Perez, 27, of the 4500 block of South Spaulding Avenue. and Alejandro Sanchez, 19, of the 5200 block of South Kenneth Avenue, were charged Friday with possession of cannabis. They were scheduled to appear in Bond Court on Friday.

Comments

[Renee]

I want to thank all of the police officers of the 25th@18th districts who have arrested me on numerous occasions from 1996-2001.

6yrs later I can say that all those arrests gave me the wake up call I needed to straighten up.

Thanks

So far this blog is just feel good, sanitized articles glorifying police. While that is not all bad, it seems a bit like reading the Good Times News, kinda monotonous after a while.

Contributors could easily decide that if they have nothing warm and fuzzy to write about, they won’t be published.

Hopefully this blog will catch on and become a forum for officers to voice opinions, give feedback, discourage rumors, post announcements relevant to police concerns and just speak up about issues affecting them.

However, there are basic suspicions officers have about airing their opinions over a police controlled forum. This should be interesting……

Ummm. . . I know this sounds strange, but. . .wasn't Chicago one of the FEW affected cities that didn't PANIC and shut down? For the most part, I think we can tell the difference between a lite-brite and a BOMB!!!

I'm glad my commute wasn't affected!

[ron shuman]

thank you for your..skills in finding those terrible cartoon terrorists...I was so afraid ...but now I feel safe....blow those lite brites up...get rid of them...they put terror in our minds...those cartoon terrorists should be hung on tv just like saddam !!!!!