Berwyn Police Blotter
After-work plan: Buy drugs. Do drugs. Repeat.
September 19, 2008, 12:27 PM
Concerned citizens alerted police to three men asleep in a silver PT cruiser parked at Burger King, Cermak and Oak Park. An officer woke the driver and ask him, “are you OK?” The driver said he was, but added, “I’ll be honest with you, we came here for dope but didn’t get any”. When asked whether there was any contraband in the car, the driver reportedly said that, in the console, there were some needles and a cooker he uses to cook heroin. He also stated that he and his companions used heroin earlier in the day.
After backup officers arrived on the scene, police asked the driver and the front seat passenger to exit the car; the man in the rear seat slept on. On the front passenger side, police saw a syringe with an exposed needles on the floor. The driver was Brandon R. Buginas, 29, of Montgomery. The front passenger was Jason E. Doerries, 28, of La Grange. Police then woke the rear passenger—Joseph M. Ziemer, 19, of Aurora—and got him out of the car also.
The console contained a silver hard eyeglass case which held four hypodermic syringes, cotton swabs, and a metal lid or bottle cap with an improvised handle, which had a greyish-brown residue. In the back seat lay a black sweatshirt. In its front pocket was a Newport cigarette box containing a glass marijuana pipe. Ziemer reportedly said the back seat items belonged to him. All three were arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia.
Further search of the PT Cruiser located a prescription bottle of 13 blue pills in the rear compartment; the prescription was in the name of a man from the 4000 block of west Maypole, Chicago, and the label said “CLONAZEPAM 1 MG.” On the front passenger floor was a black duffle bag. It held a CD case which contained a plastic bag of two smaller plastic bags containing white powder which tested positive for heroin. There was also a $1 bill wrapped around a pill police suspected was “Ecstasy”. There was also a bag of marijuana.
After hearing his rights, Buginas told police he left work—FJR News in North Aurora—with co-worker Ziemer. They picked up Doerries, then drove to an undisclosed location in Chicago and purchased Heroin. With the heroin, they drove to the forest preserve at Roosevelt and 1st Avenue, where Buginas said he cooked two $10 bags of the drug and injected them into himself, then injected 3 or 4 $10 bags into Doerries because, he said, Doerries was afraid to do it himself.
Next, the three men drove to another undisclosed location to buy marijuana, returned to the same forest preserve, and were scared when they saw a forest preserve police car in the lot. They managed to get pulled over, but the forest preserve cop let them go with a warning to wear seat belts. They drove away, all three smoking marijuana as they went. Nobody was quite certain about how they ended up in Berwyn at a Burger King.
When asked how he acquired the Clonazepam, Buginas reportedly stated he goes to a bus stop in the area of Madison and Pulaski in Chicago, where one may purchase Xanax, Clonazepan, downers or methadone. He told detectives he buys pills when he cannot afford heroin, to “take the edge off.” The officer showed him a pill; Buginas stated, “it’s probably Clonazepam,” adding that the “white bars in the bottle are Xanax”. When police showed him there were no “white bars”, Buginas reportedly said “there should be three or four. Wow—I must not remember using them.”
Buginas, Ziemer and Doerries were charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.
Buginas was charged with one felony count of possession of a controlled substance. Doerries was charged with two felony counts of possession of a controlled substance. Police had the PT Cruiser towed; it will be held for possible seizure for use in the commission of a crime.
what idiots hahaha
Posted by anthony payne on 10/06 at 05:12 PM
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