Crime & Safety
Police Arrest West Chicago Man for Marijuana in Broad Daylight on South Third Street
The following information was supplied by the Geneva Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Geneva police arrested Anthony Devito, 44, of West Chicago for possession of drug paraphernalia around 2:18 p.m. June 5 on the sidewalk in the 600 block of South Third Street, reports said.
Devito “knowingly possessed a pipe, commonly known as a ‘one hitter’ … (and) had in his possession 0.5 grams of a substance containing cannabis.”
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