Burr Ridge Man Accused Of Trafficking Cocaine

Burr Ridge IL

02 December, 2021

11:12 AM

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BURR RIDGE, IL — A Burr Ridge man who is a former police officer is accused of being involved in the trafficking of cocaine from Mexico to Illinois. Juan Carmona, 46, was charged with calculated criminal drug conspiracy, trafficking cocaine, cocaine possession with intent to deliver and cocaine possession, prosecutors announced Thursday. Carmona is a former officer with the Cook County Sheriff's Office. According to the office, he started as a corrections officer in 2001 and became a police officer in 2005, leaving in 2014. Carmona lives in the 11200 block of 71st Street in Burr Ridge. In 2019, federal investigators discovered Carmona's involvement in an international cocaine trafficking operation, according to a news release from the attorney general's office. Agents with the Homeland Security Department found 35 pounds of cocaine in two Illinois residences that Carmona owned, the release said. Carmona told agents the cocaine was from Mexico and admitted to being part of the operation, authorities said. The case is pending in Will County Circuit Court. If convicted, Carmona faces up to 30 to 120 years in prison, according to the release. Carmona's bond has been set at $1 million. Previously, the attorney general's office charged Luis Felipe Cantu-Reyes — who was accused of being involved in the trafficking operation — with controlled substance trafficking, calculated criminal drug conspiracy, criminal drug conspiracy, possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, possession of a controlled substance, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Cantu-Reyes' case is pending in Will County Circuit Court.