Bond was set at $250,000 for a Kankakee man arrested on drug and weapons charges.  38-year-old John Bender is in custody. KAMEG agents had him under surveillance for some time.  Bender is charged with one felony for unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, three felony counts of unlawful possession of a weapon and three counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.

KAMEG agents and the SWAT team executed a search warrant at a home in the 1500 block of South Fourth Avenue where they found Bender and another person. They located three firearms, 3.6 grams of ecstasy) and a scale.  KAMEG agents also charged Bender with making three deliveries of cocaine this year.

Bender is currently on federal parole on a firearms conviction in 2009.

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