The DeKalb North Central Narcotics Task Force has discovered DeKalb connections to a recent drug bust in Aurora involving cocaine with a street value of $400,000.

“We are anticipating arrests in DeKalb over the next two months,” task force sources said, although there are no sure identifications of the DeKalb connections.

There are many more drug suppliers to DeKalb because “where there is one there are two”, task force sources said, but “we think this (the bust) is a pretty big dent” in the drug operation.

The three alleged cocaine suppliers from Aurora who were arrested by the task force include Ramiro Alvarez, 25, Juan M. Salas, 29 and Andres Hernandez, 21.

One kilogram of cocaine, which was 98 percent pure and had a street value of $400,000, was bought from the suppliers by an undercover task force agent, task force sources said.

The task force used undercover agents acting as drug users looking for cocaine to meet with the suppliers and purchase the kilogram of cocaine.

A joint investigation between Aurora and DeKalb led the task force, presently in the process of stopping the drug trafficking in DeKalb County, to the three suppliers in Aurora.

The Aurora Police Department Vice and Narcotic Unit asked the task force for assistance when Aurora police discovered DeKalb residents driving into Aurora and purchasing large amounts of cocaine, task force sources said.

The DeKalb County residents who were buying the cocaine in Aurora were selling it in DeKalb County, task force sources said. “We (the task force) know there are drugs in DeKalb. We are almost 100 percent sure they (the drugs purchased in Aurora by residents) are in DeKalb.”

The kilogram of cocaine purchased by the undercover task force agent had a fifty dollar foreign currency bill attached to it, which led the task force to believe it was part of a larger shipment of cocaine, possibly from Colombia or Greece, task force sources said.

There are no connections to anyone from NIU presently, but some of the shipment may end up in the area. “Some of it (the cocaine) would go up to the college area because that is where there is the largest number of people,” task force sources said.

The task force would not specify which cities the shipment would supply due to the ongoing investigation, but the drug shipment is supplying many Illinois’ cities from “Sandwich up into Sycamore,” task force sources said.

If convicted, the alleged suppliers can expect between six and 30 years in prison for the one thousand grams of cocaine found in their possession; possession of over 15 grams of cocaine is considered a Class X felony.