Heroin-Filled Boots Accidentally Worn by Friend of Accused Drug Deliverer

Franklin Park, IL - A driver stopped Feb. 27 for failing to signal a turn in unincorporated Franklin Park was found to have suspected heroin and drug paraphernalia hidden in his car and in his motel room.

Sheriff’s Police Street Crimes Suppression Unit officers stopped William Fajardo, 26 of West Palm Beach in Florida, around 11:25 p.m. in the 2400 block of Mannheim Road, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.

Fajardo was arrested after police learned there were drugs and drug paraphernalia in the car, and the car was towed to sheriff’s police headquarters.

A Des Plaines police K-9 found suspected heroin in a plastic bag inside a black sock in the passenger side vent, the sheriff’s office reported.

Investigating officers learned Fajardo drove from New York to Chicago to deliver the drugs to someone, and there were more drugs in a pair of tan boots at a motel room in the 2500 block of Mannheim Road, where Fajardo and a friend were staying.

The friend let police search the motel room, and officers found the friend was “inadvertently” wearing the boots that contained the drugs, the sheriff’s office reported. The boots had custom-made insoles that carried more than 900 grams of suspected heroin. Police determined the friend was not involved in the drug delivery.

Fajardo was charged with possession of a controlled substance – more than 900 grams of heroin, a Class 1 felony, and manufacture or deliver more than 900 grams of heroin, a Class X felony, the sheriff’s office reported. His bail was set at $30,000.

Photos courtesy of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.