Cook County Sheriff’s Organized Crime Division investigators hit a Dolton home with a court-approved search warrant on March 9, walking out with thousands of dollars in cash, multiple guns and what they say was a sizable stash of suspected narcotics. Two people, 24-year-old Donzelle Zimmerman and 42-year-old Darius Sparks, were taken into custody at the scene and appeared the next day in the Markham courthouse. Authorities say the amount and packaging of what they found pointed to distribution, not personal use.
In a Facebook post from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office (Official) on Facebook, investigators reported seizing 1,350 grams and 862 grams of narcotics, 727 grams of cannabis, 84 grams of crack cocaine, 67 ecstasy pills and 10 Xanax pills, along with thousands in cash and three firearms. The post notes that the warrant was carried out in the 14400 block of South Ingleside Avenue in Dolton on March 9 and that Zimmerman and Sparks were both arrested at the location. Photos shared with the post show officers sorting and tagging evidence laid out across tables.
Organized Crime Division probe
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office Organized Crime Division leads many of the region’s narcotics and firearms cases, working across Chicago and the south suburbs with court-authorized search warrants as part of longer-term investigations. Materials from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office describe the unit as focused on breaking up distribution networks through coordinated operations rather than chasing one-off users…