Snapchat Coke Deal To Confidential Source Leads To Arrest: Cops

CHICAGO RIDGE, IL -- A drug deal set up on Snapchat led to the arrest of two people, prosecutors said. Kenneth Tillman, 25, of Chicago, and Samantha Kerr, 21, of Dyer, IN, appeared before Judge Peter Felice on charges of possession a controlled substance with intent to deliver.

According to the charges, a confidential source working for the Chicago Ridge Police Department, reached out to Kerr on Snapchat on Nov. 27. The confidential source ordered coating and twenty pills for $200. A meet-up was planned near 111th Street and Natchez in Worth.

A man, later identified as Tillman, pulled up to meet the confidential source. Tillman got out of the car and went to meet the confidential source. Kerr allegedly told the source that they only had cocaine for sale and not pills. Tillman became afraid when he saw police, and told the confidential source to drive up the street a few blocks, the prosecutor said.

Chicago Ridge police arrested Tillman and Kerr near 111th Street and Mayfield Avenue. Tillman had allegedly hidden two bags of cocaine in his underwear. The prosecutor said Kerr told police that she was responsible for setting the deal up on Snapchat.

Kerr has no prior criminal background. Tillman served one year in the Illinois Department of Corrections for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, the prosecutor said.

Kerr was released on a $30,000 I-bond. Kerr is due back in court Dec. 19 in Bridgeview.

“You’re with the wrong people,” Felice said.

Tillman’s attorney told the judge that his client was a self-employed traveling barber. Bail was set at $50,000. Tillman has a bond review Dec. 3, in Bridgeview. Later there was commotion in detainees’ holding area.

“Mr. Tillman isn’t happy about his bond,” a sheriff’s deputy told the judge.