COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — Police followed an illicit FedEx package full of hash oil to its recipient in Rogers Park and then on to a home with a much larger cache of drugs in the Ukrainian Village, according to a police report.
Alex Tarzian and Liam Pelletier, both 26, were arrested Thursday when police seized more than $60,000 worth of hash oil from a home in the 1700 block of West Chicago Avenue, the report states.
After discovering a FedEx package containing the hash oil, authorities conducted a "controlled delivery" to identify the recipient, the report states.
Pelletier, of the 1100 block of West Columbia Street in Rogers Park, received the package and then went to Tarzian's home on Chicago Avenue with police watching from afar, the report states.
Tarzian, who according to his attorney is a DePaul University graduate and the owner of a nonprofit set designing company, was caught with another 2,590 grams of hash oil valued at $41,440 along with several grams of a hallucinogen called Peyote.
Both men appeared in court Thursday to face drug charges.
Tarzian, charged with three counts of possession, was ordered held on $60,000 bail. His accomplice was released by a judge and ordered to return to court on his own recognizance.
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