Homer Glen Heroin Dealer Charged with Drug Induced Homicide
A Homer Glen man was charged Monday with drug induced homicide in connection with an October 2012 death of an Orland Park man.
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The Will County Sheriff's police Monday filed formal charges against Maximillian Kalemba, 21, Homer Glen, with drug induced homicide. Randall Witte, 23, Orland Park, was found dead of a heroin overdose on Oct. 27, 2012 in Kalemba's backyard.
According to Kathy Hoffmeyer, Will County Sheriff's Department spokesperson, Kalemba stated that the two were in his garage around 3 p.m. on Oct. 26 and ingested heroin. Kalemba then left to attend a wedding. It wasn't until the morning of Oct. 27, when he took the dog out that he discovered Witte laying unresponsive in the bushes.
Kalemba reportedly told investigators that he and Witte had been friends for four or five years and that both of them had a history of drug-related problems. During the interview, Kalemba told police that he made several trips a week to Chicago to buy heroin for he and his friends. Sheriff's police also got a warrant to search Kalemba's home.
On March 1, the sheriff's department obtained a warrant for Kalemba on a charge of drug induced homicide. He was booked into Will County Jail on Monday. A $400,000 bond was set, and he is scheduled to appear in court on March 26. He was also charged on March 4 with possession of drug paraphernalia.
Chuck Pelkie, spokesperson for the Will County State's Attorney's Office, said Kalemba has not yet been indicted. He did note that this particular charge—drug induced homicide—is part of a multi-pronged approach to the heroin problem that has grown exponentially in the past few years. While education and rehabilitation is integral to battling heroin addiction, the need to prosecute is also part of the process.
"In instances where the state can prove when someone delivered it, you've got to hold the dealers accountable."
The State's Attorney's Narcotics Division has been working closely with police departments to bring the dealers to court, said Pelkie. In the past, a victim's death was classified as accidental overdose.
Hoffmeyer said she couldn't recall another case of drug induced homicide that had been investigated by the Will County Sheriff's Department.
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Eric Blair
8:38 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013
He says we have to hold the dealers accountable. What if that dealer is the U.S. government? Besides the oil pipeline in Afghanistan the main objective of U.S. military is to control the heroin production and distribution system. CIA has been involved in drug operations since Viet Nam. The American people are being played and saps like this kid and the deceased are the victims, along with their families. The “war on drugs” is a hoax
Karen
9:04 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013
The Prohibition didn't stop alcohol from getting around. The only way to stop drug dealers is to stop buying it. If you don't do drugs, they don't have customers. The new face of heroin is the average suburban adult. People get addicted to Vicodin and when the prescription runs out they have to buy it at $10 a pill. Heroin is $5. The big problem is Vicodin and other painkillers gets prescribed when it really isn't needed. I've known people who've gotten the prescription when taking Tylenol or Advil would have worked just fine.
BUTCH
9:48 pm on Sunday, March 10, 2013
The wars are for drugs, terror and the Zionist state all part of the Empire and Corporations are people too my friend, the 20th -21st century opium wars after Air America and their BCCI (Bank Coke and crooks Inter. ) shifted to the Baaka valley and then to Latin America,and then back to BURMA and THAILAND under the control of their original Chinese partner Chiang Kai Shek, they next created the iranian deception and the contras and Salvador death squads, these assassination death squads and dealers are the operational wing of the Caryle Gp and Bainland China investors all of it began in the basement at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, the drugs pouring into the killing fields of Chgo and every city has their origins right here where the first( that we knew) Alzheimers POTUS became a GOP ICON. The same people control the oxy and vicodin etc also part of the CARYLE GP who was not as thought headed by the former CIA DIRECTOR and POTUS #41.A futire DOD SEC and VP was the actual CEO he also is the god father of the GOP log cabin MOVEMENT (gay) out of the closet GOP. The blood of millions of victims all innocent are on his robot soul, he is responsible for in every imaginable atrocitiy and war ongoing the wrong guy got the 666 LABEL, he has a vested interest in each and every death by drugs.world wide and by Drone, Hellfire or depleted ammo in the third world.
ginger
10:55 am on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
I hope he does serious time.....wish we could have done this to the monster that killed my brother in law.....