YouTube Video Tips Cops To Guns, Drugs, Dead Dog

HARVEY, IL — In some offices, spending time watching lengthy YouTube videos while you're on the clock might land you in trouble with your boss.

For Harvey Police Department detectives, watching a 40-minute YouTube video of people smoking marijuana, conducting an apparent drug deal and bragging about animal cruelty— as well as posing with guns, jewelry and stacks of cash—is all part of the job.

The publicly posted video included more than a dozen people police said were known gang members. After watching the video police obtained a search warrant for the house, where a local gang leader named "Monk" was under house arrest, a police spokesperson told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Police held a press conference Wednesday afternoon to show off the haul from the resulting 4 a.m. raid on his home in the 100 block of West 158th Street.

They said they discovered guns, apparent cocaine, marijuana, a dead dog, and two other mistreated dogs in the home. The people shown in the video bragged about dog fighting and the video contained images of a dead dog, police said.

The full version of the video was removed from YouTube Wednesday. At no point in the expletive-filled video did any of its subjects attempt to conceal their identities.

Top photo: Screen capture from a YouTube video that led to March 29 raid (Harvey Police Department)