Bloomington Police: ‘Main supplier’ to area cocaine dealers arrested

Posted on February 14, 2018
Rashad Adams is accused of completing drug deals in late 2017 and early 2018. (Photo courtesy Bloomington Police)

By Greg Halbleib

BLOOMINGTON – Bloomington Police say they’ve arrested a man who they call a main supplier to cocaine dealers in the area.

Police arrested Rashad Adams, 25, of the south Chicago suburb of Glenwood on Tuesday near the 300 block of North East Street in Bloomington. The arrest follows a Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force investigation with members of the vice and street crimes unit of Bloomington Police.

Adams faces six counts of manufacture and delivery of cocaine. He is accused of completing drug deals in November 2017 and January and February of 2018.

He is in the McLean County Jail with bond set at $500,000.

Greg Halbleib can be reached at [email protected]. 

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