3 charged with selling heroin in Naperville
BY BILL BIRD wbird@stmedianetwork.com February 2, 2012 10:24PM
Brittany K. Hursh, 17, Naperville
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Updated: March 4, 2012 8:21AM
A man and a woman from Aurora and a high school student from Naperville are free on bond and facing trial on charges of selling heroin in two incidents on Naperville’s far west side.
Brandon A. Bolton, 24, and Carly J. Cooper, 21, both of the 0-99 block of South Madison Avenue in Aurora, are charged in one case police cracked with the help of area residents.
Brittany K. Hursh, 17, is a Neuqua Valley High School student and lives on the 2100 block of Snow Creek Road, in the Saddle Creek area of Naperville’s far southwest side. She was arrested in the second incident while allegedly in the process of selling heroin to a customer, Naperville police Sgt. Nick Liberio said.
Police earlier this year “had received information from concerned citizens regarding individuals selling heroin,” Liberio said Thursday night in a release. Using that information, members of the department’s Special Operations Group and Intel Unit on Tuesday arrested Bolton and Cooper, following a month-long investigation.
Cooper and Bolton were taken into custody after allegedly being seen conducting a drug deal in a retail parking lot on the 700 block of South Route 59, Liberio said. They allegedly had in their possession approximately 15 bags of a substance that field-tested positive for heroin, he said.
Hursh was arrested Wednesday by members of the Special Operations Group during what Liberio termed “an investigative stop.” She was allegedly “observed by detectives doing a drug transaction in a parking lot” near 75th Street and Route 59, Liberio said.
Police allegedly found 15 foil packets in Hursh’s possession that field-tested positive as a total of a little more than a gram of heroin, Liberio said.
An assortment of alleged narcotics paraphernalia was also confiscated from Hursh. “All of the items had a residue that tested positive for the presence of heroin,” Liberio said.
Hursh was not working with Bolton and Cooper, Liberio said. All three are charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, a Class 1 felony.
None of the three has a significant criminal record, according to documents on file in the DuPage County and Will County court systems.
Bolton and Cooper are scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in DuPage County Circuit Court in Wheaton. Hursh’s arraignment date there is pending.
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