North Central Narcotics Task Force News Today

A Hanover Park man who pleaded guilty to money laundering has been sentenced to six years in prison, officials announced Friday. Michael A. Venegas, 24, was first investigated in April 2021 after inv...

Two workers at a Geneva smoking-supplies shop were charged with dealing cannabis, Geneva police announced Wednesday. Daniel J. Velasquez, 28, and Kylie Housley, 20, both of the 700 block of Orchard in...

A Waukegan man has been arrested and charged in the drug-induced homicide of an Algonquin man who died following a heroin overdose, prosecutors said.

A Kane County sheriffs deputy has received pretrial diversion on a charge he possessed cocaine, in which he pleads guilty and goes into a drug program that could get the charge removed from his record.

A state police task force arrested a Colorado man who allegedly had over 5,000 grams of cannabis while driving on Interstate 90 in McHenry County on Wednesday.

A 29-year-old Algonquin woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for delivering drugs to a 48-year-old Algonquin man who died of an overdose in 2020.

Over prosecutors’ objections, Bruce Berrier had been released from DuPage County jail to attend his brother’s funeral. He was fitted with an electronic GPS monitoring device that he allegedly removed.

A convicted gunrunner accused of escaping from custody while attending his brother’s funeral has been arrested, authorities said.

Bruce Berrier, 22, sold illegal weapons and ammunition to undercover agents.

"More often than not, the guns used in these crimes are illegally obtained from people such as Mr. Berrier, who seek to line their own pockets at the expense of our communities' safety."