EAST CHICAGO — What started as a routine traffic stop for an expired license plate and a faulty brake light turned into a cocaine and marijuana drug bust on an East Chicago woman Friday.

A grand jury in Chicago returned an indictment against a high-ranking Sinaloa Cartel affiliate on charges of drug conspiracy ...

Jose Ramirez-Arellano, 33, was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 17, in a federal court in Chicago after he pleaded guilty last year to a federal drug charge. The office said in February 2022, Ramirez ...

the Chicago Tribune reports. The overdoses are being linked with a batch of heroin suspected to be laced with the painkiller fentanyl. Fentanyl is an anesthetic that is 30 to 50 times more potent ...

A Chicago man is facing manslaughter and drug trafficking charges in connection with the Jan. 18 overdose death of a woman, Davenport police said. Martin Luther Carpenter Jr., 40, is charged in ...