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.

ZION, Ill. - A Lake County man was charged with drug trafficking after an investigation uncovered a stash of heroin, cocaine, meth and mushrooms at his home. The Lake County Sheriff's Office ...

The indictment alleges that Espinoza Angulo worked with others to obtain fentanyl precursor chemicals and to make fentanyl to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...