'Dirty' Cocaine Dealer On Raynor Ave. 'Admitted Guilt': Joliet Police

JOLIET — Will County Judge Victoria Kinnison determined that 34-year-old Joliet resident Darrius Hayes must remain in the Will County Jail under the SAFE-T-Act after Joliet police raided his apartment in the 700 block of North Raynor Avenue last Friday, retrieving 921 grams of cocaine, according to Assistant Will County State's Attorney Erika Hamer.

Hayes has an extensive Will County criminal history and multiple stints inside the Illinois Department of Corrections for distributing illegal drugs, his court files show.

Prior to his latest arrest, last Friday, Joliet police already obtained a search warrant when they stopped Hayes' four-door Jeep on Clement Street and during the traffic stop, Hayes let the Joliet police know "he was dirty," court records show.

Hayes told Joliet police he had less than one ounce of narcotics back at his apartment in the 700 block of North Raynor, giving them the key to his apartment; "Everything's in the front closet," Hayes told Joliet police, his court records indicate.

The following evidence was taken by Joliet police, according to the State's Attorneys:

• A 22-round Glock 40-caliber magazine with two live rounds found in the dining room.
• 51 live .40-caliber rounds in Hayes' bedroom
• Three drug scales with white residue in the dining room
• $160 cash in the dining room
• A clear plastic baggie with 25 small blue M30 pills, suspected Fentanyl, and one baggie of packaged cocaine.
• A clear plastic baggie of 10 small blue M30 pills, suspected Fentanyl, and three unknown pills on a gaming console shelf in the kitchen.
• Three large baggies of a white brick substance inside a white bag found in the living room closet.
• A clear baggie with a white rocky substance discovered inside Hayes' clothing.
• Another $270 cash in Hayes' possession.
• One of the items taken during the search of Hayes' apartment tested positive for cocaine and weighed 920.76 grams.
• "During the booking procedures, Hayes reached into his boxer briefs and handed an officer a clear plastic baggie containing a white-like substance. This item weighed 1.52 grams and field tested positive for the presence of cocaine," noted Hamer, the assistant prosecutor.

As for Hayes, he spoke with Joliet police officer Hawk Haiduke and "admitted guilt to the narcotics found in the search warrant. Defendant advised that the narcotics and money found in his apartment from the search warrant were his," the petition to deny pretrial release noted.