A 57-year-old real estate agent from suburban Los Angeles has been arrested for the first time in his life — for allegedly having nearly 164 pounds of cocaine inside his luggage at Chicago Union Station.
“Wow. That’s a lot. I mean, that’s a lot,” observed Judge Deidre Dyer during the first court appearance for the agent, Jerome Nalbandian.
Prosecutors said Nalbandian was arrested at Union Station on April 13 with 75.15 kilos of suspected cocaine stuffed into four roller bags. That converts to 163.47 pounds…