CHICAGO - A woman and two men from the Red Lake Indian Reservation were arrested last week just outside Chicago with $80,000 worth of heroin and several handguns.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times website, Jessica Johnson, 29, and Leo Cook, 31, both of Redby, as well as Derek Paddy, 19, Red Lake, were arrested last Wednesday afternoon during a traffic stop.
The Sun-Times reported that a Kane County, Ill., Sheriff's Deputy pulled over a 2007 Chevrolet Impala for an equipment violation on Interstate 90 at about 1 p.m. near Huntley, a village about 50 miles west of Chicago. While the car was stopped, a drug-sniffing dog indicated there was a potential presence of narcotics in the car.
Upon searching the car, law enforcement discovered 400 grams of heroin, a .45 caliber handgun, a 9mm handgun and $9,000 in cash, according to police; the heroin had an estimated street value of about $80,000, the newspaper reported;
On Friday, Johnson, Cook and Paddy were all charged with manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and armed violence.
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All three were ordered to be held on $800,000 bonds, and all three were remanded to custody, according to the Kane County Circuit Clerk's Office. The next court date for Paddy is Nov. 18; Nov. 19 for Cook and Nov. 20 for Johnson.
