Opinion ID: 750120
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Heading: Arrests and Seizures of Evidence

Text: 16 Police arrested all of the appellants on January 23, 1995, with the exception of Appellant Anderson, who was incarcerated at the Menard Penitentiary. Lawrence McCarroll and Jeffrey Brock attempted to escape arrest by both car and foot. When they were apprehended, Lawrence McCarroll was wearing a $3,500 mink coat, thousands of dollars worth of jewelry, and possessed $328 in cash; Brock had approximately $450 on his person. Lawrence McCarroll admitted that he was surprised how much information the F.B.I. had about the conspiracy's operations, and he offered to lead the Government to Sam, the conspiracy's wholesale supplier. Police found Derrick Jarrett at Ida Wells holding over $500 cash and wearing $700 worth of jewelry. A CHA officer arrested Judy McCarroll and Hameen and seized 499.4 grams of 70%-pure heroin, $2,750 in cash, and a gold bracelet worth nearly $1,500. 17 Concurrent with these arrests, law enforcement officials executed four search warrants on apartments controlled by the appellants. One of these apartments--the conspiracy's laboratory in South Chicago--contained hundreds of plastic baggies, cooking materials, lactose containers (lactose is used to dilute high-purity heroin), razor blades, cooking recipes, and a white powder residue throughout the apartment that tested positive for heroin. In another apartment, Government agents found an invoice for a $3,300 fur in Hameen's name, a scale, records of drug sales, and about $850 in cash. The search of Lawrence McCarroll's home revealed approximately $45,000 worth of receipts (tracing the conspiracy's laundered funds). Lastly, at Judy McCarroll's house, agents found a receipt for a fur appraised at almost $15,000 and a $5,500 fur (in which Judy McCarroll was embroidered). 18 The most important item seized from Judy McCarroll's house, however, was the conspiracy's complex bookkeeping system. An experienced F.B.I. agent, Daniel Clouse, explained this system to the jury at trial. The appellants kept track of their enormous cash flow through terminology like flats, folds, and stacks. The conspirators used these same terms in their phone conversations with each other. The papers kept by Judy McCarroll indicated that the appellants sold most of their product in $20, half-gram packages. Agent Clouse testified that these documents, which concerned discrete periods of time (October 20, 1993, to April 8, 1994, and June 3 to July 23, 1994), evidenced over $700,000 in sales. The conspiracy's total sales, according to Agent Clouse, probably would be exponentially greater than this figure because the seized documents covered only a limited period of time and only a limited scope of the drug operation within that period.