The Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), Criminal Investigations Division (CID), made two arrests and seized heroin in the course of investigating the death of a 26 year-old Wauconda man who died from a heroin overdose in the morning hours on May 16.
According to a news release from the LCSO, Deputies and Coroner investigators called in CID after determining the scene reflected the death was the result of a drug overdose. In an investigation led by Det. Chris Covelli, members of CID were able to identify the probable source of the heroin and subsequently were able to establish contact with that individual.
On May 18, at approximately 7 p.m., Sheriff’s detectives working in an undercover capacity, contacted Douglas Moses and arranged to buy heroin from him in a Wauconda forest preserve. When Moses arrived at the forest preserve with a second individual they were taken into custody without incident and the heroin was seized.
Charged were;
- Douglas E. Moses, 40, of Waukegan with Drug Induced Homicide; Unlawful Deliver of a Controlled Substance (UDCS) and Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance w/Intent (UPCS w/Intent).
- Yvonne M.Pitts, 36, of Waukegan with Unlawful Delivery of Controlled Substance (UDCS), Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance w/Intent, (UPCS w/Intent).
Both Moses and Pitts are awaiting a bond hearing.
Sheriff Mark Curran praised the efforts of the Criminal Investigations Division. “In a relatively brief period of time we were able to bring charges in a case that is usually very difficult to investigate. This I am sure will bring little comfort to the family of the deceased but it should send a message to those in our county that traffic in poison and death: You will be held accountable for your actions and prosecuted to the full extent that the law allows.”
People need to pull their heads out of the sand and realize what's going on around them, help those that need it and turn into police those that deserve it.
*********** Robert Render, 26, died in the early morning hours of May 16. He was found at a halfway house in Wauconda where he had been staying while on parole, said Chief Wayne S. Hunter of the Lake County Sheriff's Office. In 2008, Render was charged in connection with the disappearance of Brian Carrick about six years before, although prosecutors eventually dropped the case. In 2010, he was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for stealing 12 cans of baby formula from the Jewel in Spring Grove, to be served at the same time as charges out of Lake County.
Rob was no "saint" you are correct, who among us is? Are you? And the charges brought against him were dropped for good reason..there was no evidence because Robby had nothing to do with Brian Carrick's disappearance!!! He too was only 16 years old at the time and was caught up in the case because he worked there! He made mistakes, but he was a good person and he has a family who loves him and miss so maybe you should not speak on subjects of which you have no knowledge..I'm just saying.
Love today's "editors". Is the baby formula being served at the same time?
Rob was my brother and just because you were at the trial does not mean you know more than the investigators in the case. There was no evidence my brother was involved, he worked at Val's, of course his fingerprints and other traces of him were there. Did you read a transcript of his statements, no you did not and they were never presented at trial so how do you know what his "story" was and whether or not it ever changed. Rob was never and should never have been on trial for Brian Carrick's murder, because he had nothing to do with it and the only reason these false rumors about his involvement persist is because of idiots like you who keep making false statements. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Let the justice system do it's job and pursue justice in a court of law, a case should not be tried in the media. Let my brother rest in peace and his family mourn him.