Array Of Drugs, Paraphernalia Found In Late-Night Traffic Stop

GLENVIEW, IL — Sheriff's police found heroin, methamphetamine and an assortment of drug paraphernalia following a traffic stop early Wednesday morning in Northfield Township. Police pulled over a silver Jeep for a broken rear taillight around 2:20 a.m. as it headed north in the 500 block of Milwaukee Avenue, in an unincorporated area between Niles and Glenview. Three people were charged with drug possession and a passenger was found to have an active arrest warrant, according to the Cook County Sheriff's Office.

The driver, Rochelle Gatan, 41, of the 3N400 block of Lombard Road in Addison, told police there was nothing illegal in the Jeep and gave officers permission to search it.

The search turned up seven glass pipes, seven syringes – some filled with a liquid substance suspected to be heroin – three packages of aluminum foil filled with a sticky black substance suspected to be heroin and a bag of suspected methamphetamine hidden in a cigarette.

Police said they found a total of 6.3 grams of suspected meth and 4.7 grams of suspected heroin, as well as as various other drug paraphernalia including a spoon and a digital scale.

Gatan and 33-year-old passenger Joymarc Querol, of the 800 block of McIntosh Court in Prospect Heights, were charged with possession of methamphetamine.

Another passenger, Tina Kowalisyn, 39, of the 11000 block of South Avenue C in Chicago was charged with possession of heroin.

Tonya Sperry, the 23-year-old the fourth passenger in the Jeep, was arrested on a no-bond warrant issued by Cook County in connection with a charge of identity theft, according to the sheriff's office. She shared the same address as Querol.

Gatan was ordered held in lieu of the $2,000 cash portion of his bond. Querol was held without bond for violation of probation on a previous meth case and was given a new $75,000 bond. Kowalisyn was ordered held in lieu of 10 percent of a $50,000 bond, and Sperry remained in custody on the warrant ahead of a court appearance Friday in Rolling Meadows.