Teen Charged With Selling Lookalike Cannabis to Police Source

Lookalike cannabis plant.

Worth, IL, June 21, 2016 -- An Alsip teen was arrested after he sold fake cannabis to a confidential police source and for using a juvenile to make the transfer, prosecutors said Monday in court.
Jalen Anderson, 18, appeared before Cook County Judge Peter Felice on felony charges of manufacturing/intent to deliver a lookalike substance and a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Worth police set up a controlled buy on June 18 with a confidential sources in a parking lot in the 6500 block of 111th Street.
The prosecutor said police gave the confidential source was $300 in marked currency. Anderson, along with three other occupants pulled up in a vehicle. A juvenile passenger handed the source 18 grams of what turned out to be lookalike marijuana .
After the source gave the signal, police moved into make the arrest. The prosecutor said police found the marked currency in Andreson’s pocket.
An attorney told the judge that Anderson recently started working for UPS. It is his first arrest.
“What do you want to do? Kill your mother?” Judge Felice said. “Your days of doing drugs is over because I don’t want to see your mother coming to court crying.”
Anderson was released on a $25,000 I bond. He was also ordered to undergo random drug testing while his case is pending.