$78K Seized During I-80 Arrest Near Joliet: Sheriff

JOLIET, IL - For many years, the nation's Interstate 80 corridor has been known as one of the main pipelines for America's drug smugglers from across the country. Last week, Will County Sheriff's deputies seized more than $78,000 during a traffic stop along Interstate 80, west of Interstate 55. The out of state man behind the wheel of the rental car, Kyle Supinski, 27, was taken away in handcuffs. He was charged with possessing drug equipment, possession of marijuana under 30 grams and two counts of possessing controlled substances.

Supinski got busted around 10:45 a.m. last Tuesday, Dec. 4, reports show. He was driving a Chevy Impala with Texas license plates and his car was "drifting over the white side fog line," and "looking down while passing the deputy," sheriff's officials said.

Supinski, it turned out, was from Connecticut, and he "stated that the vehicle was a rental, and he wasn't used to driving it. The deputy also smelled cannabis emitting from the vehicle upon speaking to Supinski," sheriff's police said.

The Will County Sheriff's Office deployed one of its drug-sniffing dogs and the dog "positively alerting to narcotics," authorities said.

Sheriff's reports indicate the Connecticut man passing through the Joliet area had four separate vacuumed sealed bags of cash of: $24,100, $10,800, $17,220, and $26,450 plus another $557 cash in his possession.

And here's what else Supinski had, according to Will County police:

• THC wax
• cocaine
• cannabis
• four large empty suitcases
• drug paraphernalia.

"Initial reports indicate that Supinski left California at the end of November with the rental car and had been traveling and making stops in several states as he headed to the Midwest. He was scheduled to return the rental car to a location in Chicago on 12-7-2018," Will County Sheriff's reports show.

Supinski appeared in court last Wednesday and his bond was set at $50,000. A day later, he came up with 10 percent, to bail himself out of the Will County Jail.

Mugshot of Kyle Supinski via Will County Sheriff