B33) They got busted...

Streamwood, 1985

Behind my back packages were shipped. They were sent to DJ (Diamond Jim). I was cut out of the loop. Kicked out of the car. Betrayed. They sent three packages up from Tucson. One to DT’s townhouse, one to the office his wife worked at and one to the shipper’s family in Elgin.

As it turned out the girl that shipped the packages did something to bring suspicion upon the packages.

UPS delivered one of the package to DT’s home in Streamwood, IL. DT was home alone. First off there were two UPS men to deliver one package. And they were too chatty. And they looked nervous and fidgety. And they answered questions that were never asked. I wish I could get more people like that at my poker table.

Though suspicious DT signed and took the package.

The package looked odd. It looked as if it had been opened after having been taped shut. He picked up the phone and called Tucson. Questions needed to be answered.

It was not good news. Tucson confirmed there was a problem. Package was never reopened prior to sending. Sealed once with only one kind of tape.

DT hung the phone up.

Back in the mid eighties the Streamwood police department had the big RV they used on stakeouts parked out in front of the police station. The stakeout vehicle was on display for all to see. They broadcast their stakeout RV vehicles. Everyone that drove by knew that RV at the police station.

DT peeked through the front window and spotted the Streamwood police department’s RV at one end of the block. At the other end of the block were two unmarked cruisers.

OMG

They are sitting out there waiting for traffic to start showing up. Probably looking to bust people as they leave.

The situation was bad. The package had about twenty five pounds. DT had 40K or 50K in cash on hand and paperwork with names and numbers along with accounting details for his operation.

DT filled his brief case with paperwork and money. He carefully opened the window on the side of the house slid into the bushes. He belly crawled from the bushes along side the house to the bushes behind the house. From there he crawled down along the tracks then over the tracks and into a corn field. He disappeared into a Field of Dreams.

In short, he got away.

The cops wait about two hours before they did their big move and raided DT’s house.

Later DT admitted to regretting not going back for the weed. How I wish that would have happened. That would of really pissed them off. To deliver 25lbs of high quality mexician sinsemilla and loose it to the “perp”. That would have been perfect.
It’s true that DT eventually turned himself in after an arrest warrant was issued.

Had he gone back and grabbed the weed they would have dropped the case for lack of evidence. It sure would have been nice if the story ended that way.