A Texas truck driver faces felony cocaine-trafficking charges after a traffic stop on I-57. The Illinois State Police (ISP), with the assistance of the Kankakee Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group, arrested 63-year-old Dwayne B. Cook of Spring, TX  Saturday morning. Cook was jailed at the Jerome Combs Detention Center.

ISP trooper conducted a motor carrier safety inspection on a truck tractor  in Chebanse.  A search of the truck tractor revealed 15 kilo bundles (approximately 40 pounds) of suspected cocaine. ​ The driver was arrested, and charged with Controlled Substance Trafficking (Class X Felony) and Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance (Class X Felony). 

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