Crime & Safety
What's With All The Coke? Shorewood Police Blotter
The cops made another cocaine arrest.
March 19
Coke collar
A midnight traffic stop turned into a felony drug arrest, said.
Samantha Hutson, 29, was in a car the cops pulled over for an "equipment violation" near the corner of Houbolt Road and Jefferson Street, police said.
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During the traffic stop, police said, officers found Hutson in possession of a substance that tested positive for cocaine.
Hutson, who the Shorewood police say lives in Chicago but according to Will County Sheriff's Department records has a Braidwood address, was hauled off to the county jail in Joliet. She was booked into custody on charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug equipment.
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Hutson was the second person in two days to get collared on a coke charge by the Shorewood police.
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