SUSPECT IN FENTANYL DEATH ARRESTED AGAIN

Allegedly Sold Drugs To Cop's Son, Who Died

A Chicago man free on bail in the drug-induced murder of a suburban
deputy police chief's son found himself in jail again Thursday after
getting busted for alleged heroin possession.

Corey Crump, 36, was charged with possession of a controlled
substance after police arrested him Wednesday night. Last August,
prosecutors charged Crump with selling fentanyl-laced heroin to
17-year-old Joseph Krecker, the son of Franklin Park Deputy Police
Chief Jack Krecker.

When police apprehended him Wednesday night, Crump "indicated that he
was still selling heroin and had been selling heroin since he got
out," said Anna Demacopoulos, supervisor of the narcotics felony
trial unit for the Cook County state's attorney's office.

"He also said to police officers that he was going to be in jail in
six months anyway because he was going to get 30 years for the
murder," Demacopoulos said at Crump's bond hearing.

Judge Laura Sullivan set Crump's bond at $250,000 for the latest
charge, but Crump will be held in jail because he allegedly violated
the conditions of his bond in the August case. He will appear before
Judge Lon Schultz on the violation of bond charge Feb. 8.

In the only case of its kind in Cook County, prosecutors charged
Crump last August with selling heroin laced with fentanyl to Krecker.
Fentanyl is a pain-killer blamed for a string of drug deaths in
Chicago -- and 185 deaths in Cook County -- after it started
appearing in batches of heroin. It has been implicated in hundreds
more deaths nationwide.

When prosecutors charged Crump in August, Cook County Judge Raymond
Myles set bond at $80,000. Defendants are usually required to post
only 10 percent of their bond, but Crump went free. He also got a
lawyer from the blue-chip law firm Jenner & Block representing him
free of charge.

108 packets of heroinAccording to Demacopoulos and Chicago Police
Gang Intelligence Cmdr. Nicholas Roti, police got word that Crump was
dealing again. During surveillance Wednesday, police saw him walking
out of a gangway in the 2600 block of North Harding to a waiting car.
He opened the hood of a car and tried to hide a plastic bag
containing tinfoil packets, authorities said.

Police arrested Crump at the scene, finding 108 packets of heroin
amounting to 10 grams, Demacopoulos said. The drugs were packaged in
the same way as the fentanyl-laced narcotics recovered last summer, Roti said.

Roti described Crump as an admitted Conservative Vice Lords gang member.

"I thought the bond was too low" when Crump was arrested in August,
Jack Krecker said Thursday. "My thought at the time was, he's out,
and it will just be a matter of time. And it was."