Tinley Park Officers Stumble Upon Large Heroin Hub in Local Hotel

 said they found dried blood and a "baseball sized mound" of white powder when they responded to a call about suspicious people in a local hotel room. 

And that's not all. 

Two officers were initially called around 2:20 p.m. Monday to Comfort Suites, 18400 Spring Creek Drive in , where hotel staff said strange people had been going in and out of a third-floor room for two days.

A manager said she wanted officers to contact those staying in the room to let them know that only one person should be there, according to the report. She was concerned something illegal was going on.

The officers knocked on the door and didn't get a response. They heard a TV on, the report said, but no voices coming from the locked room.

Police agreed to stand by as the manager checked on the well-being of her potential guest, the report said.

"(She) used a master key to open the room door … after announcing several times that management was going to enter (and) getting no response," the report said. "Upon opening the door (officers) could observe in plain view numerous small Zip Lock bags commonly used to package narcotics laying on the floor by the coffee table in the front part of the room."

Also in plain view was a mound of white powder, officers wrote in the report. They then cleared the room, in which they found "numerous" drug paraphernalia lying "all over," a small amount of blood on the bathroom floor and a towel with what looked like crusted blood on it. 

The manager said she no longer wanted the guest to occupy the room and deactivated the key cards, according to the report. A detective soon got to the scene to collect evidence and field test the potential drugs, which turned out to be heroin—91 grams of it, they said.

Whoever was in the room had removed a piece of artwork from the wall for its glass pane on which they were "cutting" the white powder with razor blades, police said. A "Mr. Coffee" coffee grinder was piled with white powder on the frame. 

"There were also boxes of Dormin sleeping pills that were by the white powder that appeared to be cut up to mix with the … heroin," the report said.

In the dresser drawers, officers said they found additional plastic bags, a scale, a tin can that had one end cut off, aluminum foil, a "one-hitter" and a used needle. They also happened upon a plastic garbage bag of sleeping pills, another scale, a measuring cup, a strainer and the base of the coffee pot/grinder.

A total of $1,544 cash was in the room's safe. 

The hotel manager gave police the name of the man who rented the room at 2 p.m. on Dec. 17, but no charges had been filed against him as of Thursday night. She said that on Dec. 18, someone paid cash to keep the room one more night. 

She described to police a pair of women who recently entered the room and was able to give a description of their vehicle along with its license plate number. She said officers missed by about 1 minute a possible drug transaction that had occurred just before they arrived.

Officers were able to track down one woman, Dawn M. Bouquet, who they said they believed bought drugs from those in the room, the report said. They found her in the 17100 block of 71st Avenue where she was the passenger in a car police said was cruising 30 mph in a 20 mph zone. They also had linked the vehicle to the investigation, the report said.

When searching Bouquet's purse, an officer found a hypodermic needle, according to the report. Another officer searched Bouquet and found two more needles in the front of her pants, police said. 

"She also located a small plastic baggie containing a white powdery substance of suspect heroin," according to the report. 

The substance tested positive for heroin and Bouquet later told police she was given a ride by the woman driving the car to buy three bags of heroin from those at the hotel, the report said

Bouquet, 50, of the 17200 block of 71st Court in Tinley Park, was arrested around 8:15 p.m. Monday and charged with one felony count of possession of less than 15 grams of a controlled substance and one felony count of possession of drug paraphernalia. Additional information was unavailable Thursday due to an ongoing investigation, police said.

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