Lots Of Cocaine, Fentanyl In Joliet Car With Tinted Windows: JPD

JOLIET — The Joliet Police Department announced that a 35-year-old Burbank man was being kept in Will County's Jail after officers say they found more than 2 lbs of cocaine and Fentanyl inside a backpack kept within his car.

Joliet police noted that Michael Juarez remains in the county jail facing charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and also obstructing a peace officer.

Joliet police spokesman Dwayne English said the following events took place on Wednesday afternoon, prompting the capture of the Burbank motorist:

At 1:26 p.m., the officers conducted a traffic stop on a Chevrolet Suburban in the 3500 block of Mall Loop Drive for failure to signal and tinted windows.

Juarez was the driver. Officers conducted a measurement of the window tint and found it to be below the legal standard. A Joliet Police K9 was summoned to conduct an open-air sniff for narcotics.

After ignoring several orders from the officers to exit, Juarez was removed from the vehicle by officers and placed into custody without further incident.

The K9 alerted to the presence of narcotics, and the officers recovered more than two pounds of suspected cocaine and fentanyl in a backpack.

Juarez also received citations for failure to signal, tinted windows and operating an uninsured vehicle. The vehicle was towed from the scene.

After this was article was published, Juarez was let out of the Will County Jail at 4:28 p.m on Friday. He had spent the previous two days in the detention.