Joliet Cocaine Dealer Faces Bench Warrant: Complaint

Joliet IL

25 October, 2021

7:00 PM

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JOLIET, IL — Just one day after 24-year-old Richard Sunde posted 10 percent of his $25,000 bail to walk out of the Will County Jail on Oct. 19, Will County prosecutors filed three drug-dealing charges against the Joliet resident. On Oct. 20, Will County Judge Art Smigielski issued the new bench warrant for Sunde, setting Sunde's bail at $350,000. The Joliet convicted felon will need to come up with $35,000 cash to get out of the county detention center this time around. The original two-count complaint was submitted by the Metropolitan Area Narcotics Squad. It stated that Sunde had a Ruger 9E in his possession on Oct. 18, and the gun's importer's or manufacturer's serial number had been removed or obliterated. The second charge in that complaint indicated Sunde was convicted in 2017 of aggravated robbery in Will County, and it is illegal for Sunde to possess the Ruger 9E gun. As for the new three-count complaint filed Oct. 20, Will County prosecutors say Sunde was involved in a 5-gram delivery of cocaine on three recent occasions: Sept. 30, Sept. 23 and Sept. 20. As of Monday evening, authorities in Will County were still trying to arrest Sunde, who lives in the 2400 block of Pandola Avenue. Sunde's information has been entered into the Will County warrants website. When Sunde was 20 years old, Joliet Patch reported he was one of three men arrested by Joliet police in connection with a 5:15 a.m. armed robbery of a female employee at the now-former Bob Evans Family Restaurant along Larkin Avenue. Related Patch coverage: 3 Men Caught In Bob Evans Stick-Up: Police