Drug Raid At Star Inn: Infant Also Found In Joliet Motel Room

JOLIET — On Monday, Joliet Patch broke the news surrounding the Joliet Police Department's arrest of two people inside their room at the Star Inn Motel on West Jefferson Street. Now, through court documents, Joliet Patch has learned that the accused heroin, fentanyl and cocaine dealers also had a baby inside their room.

According to the petition to deny pretrial release filed by the Will County State's Attorney's Office, Joliet police raided the Star Inn Motel's Room 207 last Thursday, Oct. 17, and Michael Lopez was listed as their drug dealing suspect on the search warrant application.

The Joliet police saw Lopez in the parking lot of the Star Inn, and he was captured. The officers obtained the keys to Lopez's safe, his room key and his cell phone. Inside the guest room, the Joliet police also found Danielle Dominici of Romeoville, according to the document. She was arrested, and she had a baby with her.

Inventory Of Items Recovered By Joliet Police:

Inside the guest room, Joliet police said they seized the following items:

• Mail for Lopez and Dominici
• 1.7 grams of heroin under a pillow on the bed.
• $434 cash in Dominici's wallet on the nightstand.
• A pink and white container of multiple empty baggies with drug residue
• black Motorola phone near Dominici on the bed.
• 1 multi-colored drawstring bag inside the safe.
• 1 clear plastic bag with 5.37 grams of heroin
• 19 blue plastic baggies weighing 18.58 grams of Fentanyl
• 1 pink plastic bag with brown powder, 0.34 grams of heroin
• Unlabeled prescription bottles with 16 grams of Gabapentin inside the safe.
• A prescription bottle in the name of a different person containing 23.4 grams of Gabapentin inside the safe.
• Unlabeled prescription bottles with 25.12 grams of crack cocaine in the safe.
• A metal pipe with burnt residue in the safe.
• Dormin pill bottle with pink pill fragments in the safe.
• $1,846 cash inside the beige drawstring bag located inside the safe.

According to the Joliet Police investigation of the Star Inn Motel, the officers seized: 7.41 grams of heroin, 18.58 grams of Fentanyl and 25.12 grams of cocaine.

Defendants talk with Joliet Police

At the Joliet police station, Lopez and Dominici told the officers that they lived at the Star Inn Motel for several months, were unemployed and selling drugs for money. Lopez and Dominici "admitted to having access to the safe in the room," court records show.

As for the child, Joliet police turned the child over to Lopez's mother.

Will County Jail records indicate that 30-year-old Dominici, who hails from the 600 block of Romeoville's Belmont Drive, got out of the Will County Jail on Saturday afternoon. The 34-year-old Lopez, who lives in the 2200 block of Joliet's Greystone Drive, was also freed from the county detention facility on Saturday afternoon, just like Dominici.