Carpentersville cops bust one in undercover drug buy

Carpentersville police may have arrested the delivery person, not the dealer, in an undercover drug operation Thursday night.

Carpentersville police said they obtained the cell phone number of a man selling cocaine, so an undercover officer acting as a drug user set up a meeting with him to buy some of the drug at an East Dundee business at 9:38 p.m. Thursday.

The undercover officer went to the meeting location with $100, but the person who arrived with the drugs was a woman, not the man.

She gave the officer two small plastic bags, one containing one-half gram of crack cocaine and the other containing one gram of what turned out to be gypsum from drywall, police said.

When police swooped in and arrested Cecilia L. Drain, 28, a resident of Carpentersville's Fox View Apartments, she told them she was only the delivery person, police said, and that the dealer had told her she would receive $40 for making the delivery.

Drain faces charges of manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance, manufacture/distribution of a look-alike substance and possession of a controlled substance, police said.

Drain's bond was set at $5,000 with a March 30 court date at the Kane County Judicial Center.

She was taken Friday to the Kane County jail to await either bond money or her next court date.