Seven are facing felony charges after multiple law enforcement agencies .
The seven arrested in the drug bust at appeared in bond court Friday and each are facing charges of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. If convicted each of the individuals could face 15 to 60 years in jail.
Bonds were set at various amounts ranging from $750,000 to $1.5 million.
It is unclear if any of the individuals are out on bond.
The DuPage Metropolitan Enforcement Group, a multi-jurisdictional task force that cracks down on drug trafficking, led a month-long investigation of the restaurant at 690 Roosevelt Rd. The Glen Ellyn, Lombard and Addison Police Departments assisted on the scene Thursday along with the Drug Enforcement Administration and no one was injured during the raid.
Arrestees include:
- Alfredo Garcia, 35, of Bolingbrook
- Luis Sanchez, 30, of Chicago
- Oscar Colin, 26, of Cicero
- Luz Vidal, 33, of Chicago
- Restaurant owner, Venustiano Calderon, 45, of Lombard
- Salma Sanchez-Hernandez, 22, of Cicero
- Marciano M. Diaz, 41 of Chicago
Bond is set at $1.5 million for Calderon.
Bond is set at $1 million for Diaz, Sanchez and Garcia.
Bond is set at $750,000 for Sanchez-Hernandez, Vidal and Colin.
We need to declare the fallacious "war on drugs" to be lost and over, and figure out a more sensibly approach, since it is our sons/daughters and neighbors who fuel the drug traffic by buying stuff to get them a buzz. Victim-less crimes ought not to be criminalized. It didn't work with alcohol, it hasn't worked any better on drugs.