Alsip Men Conduct Hand-To-Hand Drug Buy, Then Board Bus: Cops

EVERGREEN PARK, IL -- Two Alsip men were observed by police purchasing heroin on the street and then getting on a bus, prosecutors said. Nicholas Maynard, 36, and Joseph Petrick, 38, appeared before Cook County Judge John Mahoney on felony charges of possession of a controlled substance.

Evergreen Park police were staking out the area of 81st Street and Troy Avenue on June 26, when they saw two men, later identified as Maynard and Petrick, allegedly approaching a car to conduct a hand-to-hand drug transaction. The two men got on a bus, which was curbed at 103rd Street and Kedzie Avenue. Police boarded the bus where both men were arrested, the prosecutor said.

Both men allegedly provided their newly purchased heroin to police. The prosecutor said Maynard also had two alprazolam pills and a burnt glass pipe.

Maynard is currently on parole from the Illinois Department of Corrections where he had been serving a one-year sentence for possession of a controlled substance, according to state records. He has past drug and residential burglary felony convictions.

Petrick has no prior criminal history.

Mahoney set Maynard’s bail at $50,000. Petrick was released on an I-bond.