Pot Trafficker Nabbed After Beaten Girlfriend Called Cops: Police

JOLIET, IL — A Bolingbrook man was charged with marijuana trafficking after the cops found him carrying 25 baggies of pot while they were arresting him for beating his girlfriend, police said.

Albert Cobbins, 29, was staying at the McDonough Street Motel 6 with his 23-year-old girlfriend and their 3-year-old daughter when he and the girlfriend started arguing shortly after midnight Wednesday, police said.

Cobbins threw food down on the floor of the motel room, police said, then knocked over his girlfriend and pushed her face into the food.

Cobbins dragged his girlfriend through the food and into bathroom, police said, where he then rammed her head against the tub, grabbed her around the neck and pulled her hair.

The girlfriend reportedly escaped and called the cops. When officers arrived, they found Cobbins outside banging on the door to the room, police said.

When Cobbins was placed under arrest, police said, and officers found he was holding a plastic bag containing 25 smaller plastic bags of pot.

Cobbins was taken to the Will County jail.

Albert Cobbins | image via Will County Sheriff's Department