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Raid Nets Arrest, 18 Grams of Heroin

Joseph Lucas was charged with controlled substance possession with intent to deliver after Joliet police found $1,800 worth of heroin, scales and $200 cash.

 

    Joliet police confiscated 18 grams of heroin, weight scales and cash from a home officers raided Friday morning, Cmdr. Brian Benton said.

    Members of the police department's narcotics unit executed a warrant at about 9:30 a.m. at 1516 Timberline Drive, Joliet, and arrested Joseph Michael Lucas, 31, on charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and possession of drug equipment, Benton said.

    Street value for heroin is currently about $100 a gram, meaning the drugs confiscated had a street value of about $1,800, he said. Also confiscated from the house, located south of Theodore Street and west of Essington Road, were prescription pills, scales and $200.

    Lucas is currently be held in the Will County jail. His bond hearing is set for Monday.

    Lucas has been arrested several times previously, according to jail records. He was charged with felony domestic battery in July 2011, misdemeanor domestic battery in January 2010 and misdemeanor domestic battery in April 2008.

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    Ed

    11:53 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013

    Clicking on the other booking links didn't actually display any content. Here's a link to the booking history.

    http://66.158.72.230/nwspublic/Corrections/InmateSummary.aspx?ID=-90503

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    Jessica

    1:59 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013

    Great work, JPD! Let's keep getting these drugs off the streets!

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    Robert Hernandez

    7:54 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013

    Great Job with your limited workforce JPD.

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    John Roberts

    9:00 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013

    Let's add it up...All combined he had maybe $2500 heroin,pills worth including $200 in cash....now how many in tactical unit getting paid? It costs $42,000 per year to house an inmate in prison if he does not get transferred,if he does thats another $42,000 per year for that prison,how long was an investigation going on? My guess for a month or so add that overtime up,add the police pay....Add all of that up and it still coms down to you are still losing the "war on drugs"even after building a special unit the tax payers have to pay for just to try and stop some junkies that you will never stop from using drugs.after prison they are more likely to use drugs..labeled,convicted,unemployed,marked for life.all the reason to say hell with it to some people and just be a drug addict..what do a lot of regular people do when they can pay rent,bills,or find work?They start,or continue to use drugs.busting people for drugs does nothing but make will county money.think your saving lives? Think again.a person who might of went to this guy is now going to go elsewhere my guess to a not so good of a pert of town,more likely to be robbed,shot,killed,raped,or just disappear all to still get the heroin.for someone they do not know or know the product.which could result still in death.rehab,prison,counciling forcefully does not work and will county SA,and the prosecution in every single court house knows it too..all about money..not saving people,they know it is impossible to get rid of drugs

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    onedeerful oneder

    2:11 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013

    Really! Your logic is weak here how can you condone a heroin dealer unless maybe your one of his buyers or maybe supplier?

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    John Roberts

    8:35 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013

    Really? You don't need a 3 piece suit to argue the truth buddy...what kind of person are you? Weak how?..how can I condone a heroin dealer..well let's see do we not condone people using Suboxin to get off heroin? Or methadone? You know "their getting off heroin" lmao...that's a blind eye to what's going on...take a guess how many people just went to the hospital lot get some Suboxin or some methadone...lol I know people that have been doing drugs for over 20 to 30 years..some have been to prison a couple of times and gues what? Not a bit closer to quitting using an they were 20 years ago..people you know use drugs and you do not even know it..lol..everyday ..some family,some friends,co workers..you can bet your ass on that.....How many countries have legalized small amounts of posession? And have shut down,..do you not like to discuss reality? Or do you just like to pretend it is all going just fine as long as it does not concern you?...millions of people have been getting locked up away from thier families and you don't think that has any thing to do with the economy? Having to pay for others kids?..and how many people do you think just said well I guess I am going to quit since he got busted?..lol no thier going to seek it out probably in places not so safe,from someone who does not care he just sold them some bad stuff...or is that not a reality?

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    John Roberts

    8:36 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013

    And for your info I know nothing about this dude..

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    John Roberts

    9:02 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013

    Please explain why it is a weak point..a lot of people do not like what I say..yes I am a strong opponent of the war on drugs...look at marijuana we now have 2 states that have fully legalized the recreational use of it..now before that people killed In front of their kids,homes raided,people put in prison taken from their families for other citizens to pay for their families when them and the person using it were hard working family people that have now been sentenced to life in prison...Government prohibition causes more damage than the use it's self,..now let's take another look at this....Kentucky sued the makes of OxyContin in 2007 and won..they got back money spent on Law enforcement,rehabilitation,housing,court costs..for OxyContin related crimes...that's another approach..this grab a man lock him up with rapists,murders,child molesters for using drugs or selling drugs is definatley not workiign..in fact it is having a reverse effect,we label people to the point of NO Employment..and that has an effect of repeat offender..now Education..Prohibition only makes things skyrocket in popularity and wealth..in places that have legalized small amounts of posession have reported that heroin use is almost a non used drug..considered a low level stret drug..one kid said" why do heroin when I can get other stuff...people use drugs to alter their body feeling and there is other stuff..need to watch some home brew documentaries on drug users and their addictions.

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    John Roberts

    9:14 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013

    Heroin naaa would never touch the stuff..but let's take a gander shall we?..your kid get on heroin you smack them? You go to jail,Hog tie them,You go to jail for kidnapping if you took him or her from somewhere,you go to jail for tying them up,.now let try rehab?.you send your kid there..he gets put and uses again now what?he goes back repeatedly and sooner or later he gets a prescription of Suboxin,Methadone..what happens when they do not have that? The go back to using heroin...Now let's try the " Law"..they take your kid,raid his house maybe they shoot him maybe the don't,maybe his kids get hurt maybe they don't,,he goes to prison where there is heroin,and people he should not even be around,some have went in for posession and have stayed a life time for having to deal with prison politics and killing someone who threatened them,same for theft some went in for just theft and got life for killing someone,or the send him to rehab like they are starting to,he fails and goes to prison,if he fails a urine test he goes to prison,what happens if he completes his program and uses again..do we drag him out in the back and just shoot him?..or do we start to realize this will always be around and most violence comes because drugs are so expensive.why? Because of prohibition.and consealment of use and product.ban guns and they will be the most expensive thing on the black market get it?.and most of the people that get arrested have kids and a job but just got caught and labeled.

    John Roberts

    11:08 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013

    Watch the Documentary... Reindeer Spotting escape from Santaland..it is about drug addicts living in Finland stealing,robbing,for Subutex...one kid said he is going to be killed because he stole millions worth of heroin from the mob and even said the day he was going to be killed..on a Tuesday when he had to go speak to the mob...now one kid does most of the robbing and stealing then finally gets enough money to go to France where the give Subutex and needles free...while there for a month the kid did not rob,steal,or home invade anyone to get Subutex like in Finland...when he went back to Finland he had to start stealing again to get money for Subutex..the show is a guy who records his drug addict friends as he is a drug addict himself but knows in reality....There is no end..but only in death...and others will be born to take the place of thoes lost..we will for ever have people addicted to things weather it be clothes,foods,or drugs...but we will fill the prisons and build more to try and stop the addictions..like barbaric treatment...don't know how to deal with humans not obeying orders to stop using drugs so it's prison time...and now the government,guards,system,politicians can not keep drugs from Maximum security prisons....This means if America was turned into a Maximum Security prison (which won't be too much longer) you will never stop the drugs or users..

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    GlockG22Shoots40s

    8:50 am on Monday, January 14, 2013

    While I agree with much of what you say here John... I do think that narcotics are a bad idea and legalizing them a worse idea. Incarceration for use or possession, yeah that's admittedly a waste of taxpayer money. But this bust is an obvious dealer with scales. Users don't have scales. I realize that they will never get all the dealers off the streets, but that doesn't mean they should give up on the idea. I wouldn't want them to give up on killers either. And realistically, dealers do kill at least on an indirect basis. They help to create users and get them hooked, then those people will do almost anything to get money to get more drugs. Much of the crime in this nation is a result of drug use. Lock up any dealer you find, small town to the big boys. Just my humble opinion.

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    John Roberts

    12:31 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2013

    Users have scales also buddy...some like to see that their getting what they paid for..Aproof has been telling us that the harder heroin,marijuana,coke is to get a hold of the more people turn to synthetic chemicalized stuff like synthetic marijuana,hoofing paint,gas,and smoking,shooting up bath salts...we live in a chemical age and to remove what people have been using for years and years only introduces curiosity and creation of other drugs...

    Jeff

    1:23 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013

    Police departments are public service. They are not around to make money. If that were the case, there would be no police and criminals would run rampant. Bad example John.

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    John Roberts

    8:49 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013

    Bad example? Lol 2 things in this world that make the most money buddy is Crime and Sickness...let's see ATF,FBI,CIA,DIA,DHLS,ICE,..And the list goes on..Ever hear of "fast and furious"?..Where the ATF & FBI we're letting tons of drugs be shipped to the U.S. in exchange of information on rival cartels..Where the ATF was contacted by U.S. gun shop owners reporting that there were Mexicans comming into the shops and wanting to buy a bulk of guns at a time and they suspected they were cartel members?Know what the ATF's response was?..To let the guns be sold and go to Mexico..How did they report it?..I believe it was " U.S. guns shops selling guns to Mexico"...only reason we found out was because a rouge ATF agent came out on TV and let every one know..he said the U.S. government did it on purpose..Now I owners where thoes drugs that were shipped went?..lmao...How many people everyday different people at that every day getting busted for drug posession...criminals do run rampant lol that's why there is a big discussion on guns Carry Conseal discussion at that..because no matter what you can not stop the split decision someone makes to attack and do harm to others..only be prepared...

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    John Roberts

    9:24 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013

    If you totally drop the crime rate that drops the fines,the restitution,court costs,what do you think pays for the police?the judges?..court costs is payment,..now let's say there is less crime..Do you need as many police?..or do you start to lay them off,..The more the crime the more the police the more the money..now let's take a look at the prison system..becoming all private..owners of these prisons make more money when the prison is full..$42,000 per inmate per year..if the in,ate becomes unruly/threatened and has to be transferred the money does not go with him...after 30 days in the new prison that prison gets $42,000..is it not profitable to fill your prison and shuffle around inmates?..you just keep on getting paid..it's a nice loop hole...Like the prison lobbyists going to congress getting small crimes upgraded to felonies..and mandatory sentences....been a real treat..in the freest country in the world we have the most people locked up in prison and what are most of them in for ?....Non Violent drug use and posession.

    concerned citizen

    8:57 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013

    Well knew this guy and his sister in high school who also was in the house and got busted. He's been a user and dealer for the last 16 yrs. Nothing has stopped him so far. But at least everytime he gets busted more drugs are taken off the street. And isn't that the cops job to stop the drug dealers. So yes, i think that no matter what it cost the state to get him, at least the drugs are gone. And maybe just maybe one of these times he gets caught, he can get some real help to keep him off drugs. There are people who turn their lives around after doing drugs for years. One day that could be him. So i say good job to the cops for getting one more dealer off the street at least for a little while.

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    John Roberts

    12:33 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2013

    Forced treatment never works..saying is "you have to want to quit"the more he gets busted the less chance he has for a job and the more he will get busted for drug dealing...when you lock him up the people go else where to get the drugs and some times in places they do not belong and end up robbed and dead...

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