Shots Fired Outside Joliet Mall In Undercover DEA Drug Bust
CHICAGO (CBS) -- A drug suspect was shot and wounded in an exchange of gunfire with police and federal agents -- in the parking lot of a busy southwest suburban shopping mall.
The exchange of gunfire occurred at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the lot of the Louis Joliet Mall, in Joliet.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent Leo Hawkins said that agents were working the case undercover, and that when they moved in to make arrests, 31-year-old Adan Godinez, of Morris, allegedly fired on them.
Hawkins said agents returned fire, striking Godinez in the leg. The second suspect arrested was unhurt, and Hawkins said that no one else in the mall parking lot was hurt.
Paramedics transported Godinez to Silver Cross Hospital, in Joliet, where his condition was said not to be life-threatening.
In addition to the arrests, Hawkins said agents and Joliet police recovered two guns and two kilos of cocaine, valued at $70,000.