Posted on 05/05/2010 11:20:34 AM PDT by KeyLargo
DEA raid under way in Tinley Park
May 5, 2010
By Becky Schlikerman, Staff writer
Money counters and scales were found in a Tinley Park home during a raid today by Drug Enforcement Administration agents.
Neighbors in the Odyssey golf course community were unaware of the raid, which is ongoing.
A SouthtownStar reporter and a photographer are on the scene. Check back for updates.
This is the same gated community that Obama's reverend Jeremia Wright has his new mansion.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright builds retirement home in Tinley Park SouthtownStar (Chicago Sun-Times Newsgroup) ^ | March 29, 2008 | KRISTEN SCHORSCH
Posted on Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:10:22 PM by reg45
Trinity United Church of Christ is building Barack Obama's controversial former pastor a million-dollar Tinley Park home complete with an elevator, whirlpool, butler's pantry, circular driveway and four-car garage, building plans show.
The four-bedroom home being built for the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is in the Odyssey Club neighborhood, which boasts some of Tinley Park's largest homes and a mix of town homes. It backs up to the Odyssey Country Club and golf course.
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It was just some guy in the neighborhood...........
came in lite on their payments to The Machine, eh?
Those are illegal?
Didn’t Rezko do some deals here also???
Ritzy Tinley home raided in drug probe
(http://www.southtownstar.com/news/2241602,050610tpraid.article)
May 6, 2010
BY BECKY SCHLIKERMAN
Federal agents swooped down Wednesday on a tony Tinley Park subdivision, raiding a home authorities said was part of a far-reaching cocaine distribution network.
Askia “Bonifacio” Eubanks, who rented the home at 60 Iliad Drive, was charged by federal authorities with possessing and conspiring to sell large amounts of cocaine.
Eubanks was taken into custody in Richton Park, Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Will Taylor said. He’s being held pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for May 21, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents removed boxes of evidence, including money counters and scales, from the home in the gated Odyssey Club subdivision, at Vollmer Road and Ridgeland Avenue.
The Iliad Drive home and an apartment at the Edgewater Apartment Complex, 16703 Lakewood Drive, were used for “money and narcotics pick-ups and as (drug) stash houses,” court records show.
In addition to the Iliad Drive address, public records also show Eubanks living at homes in Chicago Heights and Monee.
Federal investigators had Eubanks and six other men - who were charged separately last week with possession of narcotics with the intent to distribute - under surveillance since at least February, trailing them and wiretapping phones, according to court documents.
Among those charged were Antonio “Monster” Mendoza and Roberto Sandoval-Velazco.
Eubanks had been buying large amounts of cocaine from Mendoza, who is said to be the head of a Chicago drug trafficking cell, according to court records.
In one instance, federal agents in February witnessed Mendoza deliver 15 kilograms of cocaine - worth more than $500,000 - to Eubanks at the Iliad Drive home, records show.
In April, a DEA agent witnessed Mendoza and Sandoval-Velazco meet Eubanks at 5930 Lake Bluff Drive in Tinley Park and deliver 10 kilograms of cocaine to Eubanks, records show.
Several neighbors said they were shocked to see a drug raid in their normally sedate neighborhood, which is next to the Odyssey Country Club and golf course. The community is made up of a mix of multimillion-dollar homes and townhouses. Among homeowners there is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, famous as President Barack Obama’s former pastor.
Neighbors who did not want to be named said the residents of the home that was raided were rarely seen by other residents.
“I never saw anyone come in or out,” one neighbor said.
Residents of the manicured subdivision said they never expected federal agents to bust into a home on the idyllic street populated by families and senior citizens.
“I never thought they’d be into drugs,” one neighbor said.
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