State/Local authorities make drug arrest

Kankakee Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group agents with the help of agents from the Illinois State Police and officers from the DuPage, Kendall and City of Kankakee Police Departments arrested a 28-year-old Kankakee man Wednesday on various drug and weapons charges. In a press release, Illinois State Police say it was about 10 Wednesday morning when officers served search warrants at three different locations in Kankakee and came away with more than 14-hundred Fentanyl pills as well as several firearm. 28-year-old Dequan L. Pope of Kankakee was arrested for possession of fentanyl with intent to deliver and being a felon in possession of a machine gun among other charges.