Traffic Stop Uncovers Heroin, Drug Gear

An Indiana man and a Grant Park woman were arrested on drug charges Feb. 26 after found heroin, syringes and other paraphernalia during a traffic stop near the intersection of 95th Avenue and Lincoln Highway, according to police reports.

Steven M. Call, 39, of the 19600 block of Austin Street in Lowell, Ind., and Tiffany R. Greenley, 31, of the 200 block of Hayden Street in Grant Park, both were charged with felony of possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor possession of a narcotic instrument. Call is being held at the Will County Jail on $2,500 bail, and Greenley is in custody at the jail on $750 bail. They both go to court on March 19.

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A Frankfort Police officer pulled over the silver Chevrolet Monte Carlo Call, Greenley and another man were riding in at around 3:55 p.m. after the officer noticed an expired license plate sticker on Call's car, which he was driving, said Cmdr. Kevin Keegan. Greenley was sitting in the back, and the other man was in the passenger seat, he added. As he was stopping the car, the officer noticed Call and the other man reach under their seats, Keegan said.

Call's hands were visibly shaking, and he continuously tapped his leg while the officer filled out a warning for driving with an expired registration, Keegan said. The officer then asked if there were any weapons or drugs in the car, Keegan said. Call gave a knife to the officer but claimed there were no drugs in the car, Keegan said. When he went to talk to the man in the passenger seat, the officer noticed an orange, hypodermic needle cap on the floorboard. A search beneath the driver's seat uncovered two syringes--one containing a yellow substance, one empty--four bags with white residue, a spoon with residue and other items associated with taking heroin or methamphetamine, Keegan said. The white residue was field tested as heroin and later confirmed by the crime lab, he added.

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Call also admitted that the substance was heroin and that he had used the drug about a week ago, but he claimed he didn't know where any of the other items came from, Keegan said.

After arresting Call, the officer continued to search the car and found more syringes--one filled with a yellow liquid, the others empty--and drug paraphernalia in Greenley's bag in the back seat, Keegan said. Greenley admitted using heroin about a week ago and told the officer she forgot about the gear still in her bag, Keegan said. The other man in the car claimed the trio was going to shoot up that day, Keegan added.

Greenley was taken into custody, but the other passenger was released because no illegal items belonging to him were found, Keegan said.