Crime & Safety
Crack, Pot Dealer Taken Down in House Raid, Police Say
Police recovered 160 bags of cannabis ready for sale and two loaded handguns, Illinois State Police Sgt. Wayne Ladd said.
A Joliet man who twice sold crack cocaine to undercover police officers and had 160 bags of marijuana ready to sell in his house has been arrested on drug charges, the director of the Will County Cooperative Police Assistance Team said.
A search warrant was executed Wednesday night at 1009 Magnolia St., the home of David L. Edwards, 28, Illinois State Police Sgt. Wayne Ladd said. In addition to the cannabis, officers also found two handguns, he said.
Edwards, who was home at the time, was charged with one count of manufacture/delivery of 30 to 500 grams of cannabis and two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
He also faces two counts of manufacture/delivery of cocaine in connection with crack sales he made to police over the course of their 2.5-month investigation, Ladd said.
Edwards is being held in the Will County jail pending a bond hearing.
According to jail and circuit clerk records, Edwards was arrested on a Will County charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of 2.5 to 10 grams of cannabis in 2011, knowingly damaging property in 2007, possession of cannabis in 2006 and other amount of narcotics schedule I & II in 2005.
He's currently on parole for a 2011 conviction for other amount of narcotics schedule I & II, for which he was sentenced to 42 months in prison, and he was sentenced to a three-year term on the same charge in 2007 stemming from the 2005 arrest, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Edwards, who was home at the time, was charged with one count of manufacture/delivery of 30 to 500 grams of cannabis and two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
He also faces two counts of manufacture/delivery of cocaine in connection with crack sales he made to police over the course of their 2.5-month investigation, Ladd said.
Edwards is being held in the Will County jail pending a bond hearing.
According to jail and circuit clerk records, Edwards was arrested on a Will County charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of 2.5 to 10 grams of cannabis in 2011, knowingly damaging property in 2007, possession of cannabis in 2006 and other amount of narcotics schedule I & II in 2005.
He's currently on parole for a 2011 conviction for other amount of narcotics schedule I & II, for which he was sentenced to 42 months in prison, and he was sentenced to a three-year term on the same charge in 2007 stemming from the 2005 arrest, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.
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