Plainfield Residents Charged in Police Raid with Selling Heroin, Cocaine

A police raid on a house Tuesday morning netted three arrests and a cache of heroin, cocaine, guns and dynamite.

The Will County Cooperative Police Assistance Team, of which a officer is a member, obtained a search warrant to go into the house at 14904 S. Center St.

Tiffany N. Book, 19, who lives at the house, was charged with four counts of manufacture/delivery of 10 to 15 grams of heroin, according to the Will County jail booking list.

Also living at the house was Mark P. Stephanites, 49, who was charged with illegal possession of 15 or more grams of cocaine, possession of explosives/incendiary devices and unlawful use of weapons.

Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Mark Weber, who heads the Will County CPAT, told the Joliet Herald News that it was Book who caught their attention first and became the subject of the team's undercover investigation.

“(During the search) we also found Stephanites, who is a felon, had two guns and six quarter-sticks of dynamite in the dining room,” Weber told the paper.

Because Book's driver's license had been revoked, she had been using Eric J. Ziarko, 18, of Plainfield, to drive her to Chicago to obtain heroin, Weber said.

Ziarko was arrested at his home, 24303 Pheasant Chase Drive. He was charged with manufacture/delivery of 15 or more grams of heroin, illegal possession of 30 or more gramsof heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia.

All three suspects are being held at the Will County jail pending a Wednesday court hearing.