State of Illinois Illinois State Police FY17 Annual Report Metropolitan Enforcement Group Printed by the Authority of the State of Illinois ISP Central Printing Section Printed on Recycled Paper ISP 5-583 (1/18) M www.illinois.gov www.isp.state.il.us Illinois State Police INTRODUCTION Metropolitan Enforcement Groups (MEGs), authorized by the Illinois General Assembly in 1977 under the Intergovernmental Drug Laws Enforcement Act (30 ILCS 715/6), continue to be an important component in the effort to combat illegal drug traffic throughout Illinois. MEGs represent a collaborative effort among state, federal, and local law enforcement agencies to enforce Illinois drug laws and investigate street gang activity. MEGs partner with Statewide Terrorism Intelligence Center (STIC) and Illinois National Guard Counterdrug analysts to reduce crime through intelligence led policing which focuses enforcement efforts on felony level drug distribution and trafficking. MEGs partner with community groups, health organizations, and local stakeholders to address and prevent substance abuse disorders (SUDs) affecting communities throughout Illinois. Illinois has nine MEGs encompassing 20 counties, including Scott County, Iowa. Combined populations of these counties is 3,968,508 or 31 percent of the total population of Illinois. The MEGs are staffed by 100 officers, 24 (24 percent) from the Illinois State Police (ISP), and 76 (76 percent) from local and federal agencies. Twenty-five administrative staff members manage budgets, analyze intelligence data, and coordinate asset seizures and forfeitures. Each MEG is overseen by a policy board composed of ISP officers, elected officials, and chief law enforcement officers or their designees. A 2017 report by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA), concluded MEG units were effective at making proportionally more felony and manufacture/delivery arrests than their local counterparts. The report also indicated MEG staff survey responses also showed a strong fidelity to the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s 12 critical elements of MEG/TFs (BJA, 2000). The annual MEG report includes statewide activity totals, as well as individual activity for each MEG unit including arrest statistics, drug seizures, and gang arrests for Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17). Activity comparisons from FY16 and FY17 are also included. Tables in the appendix section provide both summaries and individual MEG statistics for case activity, weapons seized, arrest data, and drug seizures. 1 COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS Metropolitan Enforcement Groups (MEGs) are on the front line of narcotic enforcement strategies, pre- vention, and treatment strategies. Through community partnerships, MEGs increase awareness of drug abuse trends and work with various groups to keep drug abusers out of the criminal justice system by focusing enforcement efforts on felony level drug distribution and trafficking. During FY17, MEGs partnered with the following community groups: DuPage County Prevention Leadership Team Chicagoland Opiate Area Task Force Lake and southern Cook County Law Enforcement Expo Grundy County Area Vocational Center Metro East Coalition Against Methamphetamine Southern Illinois Drug Awareness Conference Massac County Drug Awareness Coalition (MCDAC) DEA National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Heroin Opioid Forum at the Lyons Township High School Westchester Police Department Citizens Police Academy Heroin and Opioids panel discussion with Congressman Bill Foster Opiate/Opioid Crisis seminar at the College of DuPage Lake County area schools and business U-Line Corporation Lake County area Boy Scouts of America Grundy County Area Vocational Center Behavioral Health Alliance of Will and Grundy County Riverdale High School MetroLink of the Quad Cities. Vermilion County area schools and community organizations Criminal Justice Advisory Board Kankakee Community College and Olivet Nazarene University Pledge for Life Partnership of Kankakee County Lake County “A Way Out” Program Rock Island County Council Of Addiction (RICCA) Rock Island County Drug Court Numerous community substance abuse organizations and drug treatment centers Numerous County Drug Court Programs Various community groups, schools, police departments and other community organizations 2 LOCATION OF METROPOLITAN ENFORCEMENT GROUPS LCMEG DuMEG QCMEG JMANS MCNEG KAMEG VMEG MEGSI DuPage County Metropolitan Enforcement Group (DuMEG) Joliet Metropolitan Area Narcotics Squad (JMANS) Kankakee Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group (KAMEG) Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group (LCMEG) Metropolitan Enforcement Group of Southwestern Illinois (MEGSI) SIEG Multi-County Narcotics Enforcement Group (MCNEG) Quad Cities Metropolitan Enforcement Group (QCMEG) Southern Illinois Enforcement Group (SIEG) Vermilion County Metropolitan Enforcement Group (VMEG) 3 FY17 MEG FUNDING AND PERSONNEL In FY17, nine MEGs received a total of $1,170,000 in funding. Funding was derived from State Asset Forfeiture Funds and Drug Traffic Prevention Funds (DTPF). The tables below represent funding and personnel allocation for each MEG. FUNDING MEG General Revenue Forfeiture DTPF Total Funding DuMEG $0.00 $154,310.00 $0.00 $154,310.00 JMANS $0.00 $111,020.00 $0.00 $111,020.00 KAMEG $0.00 $117,000.00 $0.00 $117,000.00 LCMEG $0.00 $156,350.00 $0.00 $156,350.00 MCNEG $0.00 $105,300.00 $0.00 $105,300.00 MEGSI $0.00 $145,820.00 $0.00 $145,820.00 QCMEG $0.00 $60,210.00 $57,000.00 $117,210.00 SIEG $0.00 $129,740.00 $0.00 $129,740.00 VMEG $0.00 $133,250 $0.00 $133,250.00 Totals $0.00 $1,113,000.00 $57,000.00 $1,170,000.00 PERSONNEL ISP Local Federal Administrative Total DuMEG 2 11 1 3 17 JMANS 2 7 1 2 12 KAMEG 3 7 0 2 12 LCMEG 3 11 1 2 17 MCNEG 1 4 0 3 8 MEGSI 6 11 0 5 22 QCMEG 2 12 0 2 16 SIEG 3 2 2 1 8 VMEG 2 3 3 5 13 Totals 24 68 8 25 125 4 STATEWIDE MEG TOTALS Cases Opened Closed by Administratively Ongoing Arrest Closed Investigations FY16 FY17 FY16 FY17 FY16 FY17 FY16 FY17 2,128 2,093 1,234 1,169 652 577 4,231 3,273 Change -1.64% Change -5.27% Change -11.50% Change -22.64% FY16 FY17 Change Gang Members Arrested 209 152 -27.27% Weapons Seized 285 354 24.21% Drugs Seized FY16 FY17 Change Cannabis 3,108,735.50 2,872,271.00 -7.61% Cannabis Plants 1,076.00 8,822.00 719.89% Cocaine 15,975.60 235,428.10 1,373.67% Crack 1,675.30 957.44 -42.85% Ecstasy 10,736.00 6,111.58 -43.07% Fentanyl/Carfentanyl 0.02 4.15 20,650.00% GHB 0.00 60.00 NC* Hallucinogens 0.00 0.00 0.00* Heroin 19,692.50 48,939.09 148.52% Ketamine 94.60 9,745.94 10,202.26% LSD 4,985.26 2,517.25 -49.51% Methamphetamine 133,986.82 30,467.33 -77.26% Other Dangerous Drugs 33,847.56 7,977.79 -76.43% Psilocybin 2,218.64 6,096.60 174.79% NC = Not Calculable Fiscal Year 2017 Information Personnel Funding ISP: 24 General Revenue: $0.00 Local: 58 Forfeiture Funds: $1,113,000.00 Federal: 18 DTPF: $57,000.00 Administrative: 25 Total: $1,170,000.00 Total: 125 5 STATEWIDE MEG TOTALS Drug Enforcement Activity Drug Seizures Units Street Value Prosecutions Convictions Cannabis: 812 2,872,271.00 $28,026,365.00 246 128 Cannabis Plants: 40 8,822.00 $6,450,226.00 8 5 Cocaine: 403 235,428.10 $30,352,287.00 267 158 Crack: 205 957.44 $119,782.50 64 50 Ecstasy: 74 6,111.58 $250,000.50 31 28 Fentanyl/Carfentanyl 6 4.15 $345.00 3 5 GHB: 1 60.00 $600.00 0 0 Hallucinogens: 0 0.00 $0.00 0 0 Heroin: 330 48,939.09 $8,272,002.00 196 143 Ketamine: 5 9,745.94 $748.90 2 0 LSD: 39 2,517.25 $22,223.00 26 18 Methamphetamine: 354 30,467.33 $2,430,753.00 227 139 Other Dangerous: 275 7,977.79 $176,515.80 73 51 Psilocybin: 21 6,096.60 $80,665.00 8 1 Totals: 2,565 * $76,182,513.00 1129 748 Drug Arrest Charges by Type Arrests for: Delivery Possession Cannabis: 193 85 Cannabis Plants: 9 3 Cocaine: 199 72 Crack: 56 16 Ecstasy: 22 6 Fentanyl/Carfentanyl 4 3 GHB: 0 0 Hallucinogens: 1 0 Heroin: 120 89 Ketamine: 2 0 LSD: 22 6 Methamphetamine: 174 118 Other Dangerous: 21 52 Psilocybin: 2 5 Totals: 825 455 *Amounts may represent drug weight or quantity, or a combination thereof; therefore, no total is available. 6 STATEWIDE MEG TOTALS Weapon Seizures Gang Arrests Weapons Seized Total Confiscated Gang Name: Arrests Fully Automatic (any type) 0 Black Disciples 1 Other (ie. Knives, throwing 12 Black P-Stones 10 stars) Conservative Vice Lords 3 Pistols (Automatic) 70 Familia Stone 1 Pistols (Regular) 148 Four Corner Hustlers 5 Revolvers 18 Gangster Disciples 22 Rifles 127 Harrison Gents 1 Shotgun/Conventional 35 Imperial Gangsters 1 Shotgun/Sawed Off 1 Insane Dragons 1 Total Weapons Seized 411 Insane Vice Lords 1 Latin Kings 10 Mafia Insane Vice Lords 1 Manic Latin Disciples 3 Manic Latin Kings 1 North Siders 1 Peso Boys 1 Rat Scorpian 1 Reapers Inc 1 Rude Boys 2 Satan Disciples 4 Simon City Royal 2 Sinaloa Cartel 1 Surreno 13 1 Two Sixers 2 Vice Lords 15 White Supremacist 1 Zone 5th 1 Unknown 1 Total Gang Arrests 95 7 DuPage County MEG (DuMEG) DuPage County Population: 935,000 Cases Opened Closed by Administratively Ongoing Arrest Closed Investigations FY16 FY17 FY16 FY17 FY16 FY17 FY16 FY17 283 277 133 145 113 111 145 130 Change -2.12% Change 9.02% Change -1.77% Change -10.34% FY16 FY17 Change Gang Members Arrested 30 19 -36.67% Weapons Seized 26 29 11.54% Drugs Seized FY16 FY17 Change Cannabis 207,011.15 191,768.88 -.736% Cannabis Plants 15.00 1.00 -93.34% Cocaine 1,973.40 74,945.00 3,697.76% Crack 82.66 82.10 -.68% Ecstasy 3,407.00 1,832.00 -46.23% Fentanyl/Carfentanyl 0.00 0.00 0.00% GHB 0.00 0.00 0.00% Hallucinogens 0.00 0.00 0.00% Heroin 804.27 35,321.30 4,291.72% Ketamine