Crime & Safety
Suspected Lockport Drug Dealer's Arrest Justified: Judge
Cleveland V. Grimes has claimed police arrested him unlawfully during a drug investigation on Connor Avenue.
LOCKPORT, IL - Police officers had the right to stop a man suspected of dealing drugs in Lockport Township more than two years ago, a judge ruled this week, according to a report from My Suburban Life.
Cleveland V. Grimes, 43 was arrested in October of 2014 after allegedly pulling into the driveway of a home in the 300 block of Connor Avenue where a Will County Sheriff’s Office gang unit was investigating the sale of narcotics.
Authorities say Grimes reversed out of the driveway when he saw police and resisted arrest.
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Grimes denied ever pulling into the driveway and made claims of unlawful arrest in a federal lawsuit against the police.
An attorney for Grimes says he was only stopped because police knew of his previous history with law enforcement and not tied to a current infraction.
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Grimes is currently incarcerated on the charges from that night.
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