Police: $10M worth of cocaine found in man's home

Chicago Tribune ^ | Rosemary Regina Sobol and Mitch Smith

[ConservativeStatement]

A search of a South Side home Friday revealed about $10 million worth of cocaine and more than $500,000 cash, leading to the arrest of the 21-year-old man who lived there. Two others also face felony charges in the case.

Jose Pelayo-Aguilar, of the 3600 block of South Leavitt Avenue, was charged with manufacturing or delivering and possessing more than 900 grams of cocaine. During a Sunday court appearance, Judge Israel Desierto ordered him held on a $75,000 cash bond.

[Ken H]

This wasn't a bust.

It was a cartel payment to Chicago.

City gets half a mil. Plenty of top shelf party favors for the connected. And bidness as usual for the prohibition monopoly drug trade.

You hit it dead center.

Drug War whores, the lot of them.

[TigersEye]

When you have $10 mil in coke and $500k in cash at the house it might be possible to scrape up $75k from ... somewhere else. I thought the bail sounded wrong to me too.

[Lancey Howard]

Judge has a habit?

The judge is as honest as a Mexican policeman

[Lockbar]

This guy may very well not want to bailed out, after losing that much merchandise and cash. I knows there might be a good chance he will end up in a drug gang video tape having his head cut off.

[jonrick46]

Since Chicago is considered one of the key hubs of the cocaine drug cartels, 900 grams of cocaine is probably a drop in the bucket. One thing for sure is there are lots of people making big money in the illegal drug industry.

[dennisw]

Green card or illegal?

I heard he is one of Obama's "dreamers" And he selling coke to earn some tuition money

[dennisw]

Ones got arrested with 10 million in cocaine
"Dream Act" kids

[monocle]

Obama has decided the federal government will not enforce the drug laws in Chicago.

[Right Wing Assault]

“Officer, a friend told me to hold this stuff for him. I dint know what it was!”

Cops: We don’t believe you.

“OK. Actually, officer, it was for my own use. I wunt gonna sell it!”

[gunsequalfreedom]

That amount should bring on the death penalty for those found guilty.

[rawcatslyentist]

The same has been said about just being Jewish.

[mdmathis6]

10 million in Cocaine? I think this guy is one major nexus point for a lot of the killings and gang related violence in Chicago. While 75000 dollars seems a paltry sum for bail, the fact is, with the loss of 10 million in cocaine, some very shadowy folk are going to come looking for this guy very soon!

Comments anyone?

[Gaffer]

That’s okay....he’s probably an illegal and only doing the job that American drug dealers don’t want to do..

[JustSayNoToNannies]

That amount should bring on the death penalty for those found guilty.

That policy has accomplished nothing elsewhere: "APAIC reviewed drug use in Indonesia and found the following; between 2006 and 2010 the use of meth, barbiturates, heroin, and cannabis resin increased, while the use of ecstasy and cocaine remained about the same. APAIC also found that domestic production of meth and ecstasy is on the rise. Evidently the death penalty and decades long prison sentences are not deterring drug users or drug dealers." - http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/30/you-can-sometimes-reduce-drug-use-if-you

Which is no surprise - dealers daily risk death from competitors and twitchy customers, but they continue to deal and if killed or imprisoned are quickly replaced. The drug-war-hyperinflated profits are just too high to pass up.

[gunsequalfreedom]

I'm talking the death penalty for someone caught with those sorts of quantities as mentioned in the article. The way I see it the guy is the equivalent of a mass murderer for all the lives he has destroyed.

I was not talking deterent value. I just think they should be done away with.

For lesser quantities where someone is peddling to support a habit or even for low level dealers obviously the death penalty is too harsh.

Instead of Indonesia as an example, perhaps Singapore might serve as a better example? At any rate, I generally agree with your position, just not for the scum caught with these kinds of quantities.

[gunsequalfreedom]

The same has been said about just being Jewish.

Sorry, that one does not work. I get it though that you don't favor the death penalty for dealing drugs. And I agree with you. I just drew an exception over the quantities involved.

[rawcatslyentist]

Where in the scriptures does it call for death for consuming intoxicants?

Seems to be human nature to seek relief from "reality". God put plenty of them here for us.

It is as old as mankind. It's not going to "change".

You would murder your brother for that?

[gunsequalfreedom]

Where in the scriptures does it call for death for consuming intoxicants?

I'm not advocating that for consuming. It was for having tons of it for sale.

I'm actually opposed to the death penalty, just making an exception for people like this who have contributed to the destruction of so many people lives.

Hope that clears it up.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

I'm talking the death penalty for someone caught with those sorts of quantities as mentioned in the article. The way I see it the guy is the equivalent of a mass murderer for all the lives he has destroyed.

Large-volume dealers in the drug alcohol have in the same sense and to the same degree destroyed lives - do you also see them as the equivalent of mass murderers and favor their execution?

[gunsequalfreedom]

Nope cocaine is far worse