Bond was set Friday afternoon at $500,000 for a New York man accused of trafficking cocaine through Amtrak.
19-year-old Darrian T.J. Sharrow made a video appearance in Knox County Circuit Court where Judge Curtis S. Lane set bond and appointed the public defender’s office to represent his case.
Sharrow is charged with two Class X felonies of trafficking a controlled substance and manufacturing/delivery of a controlled substance. The indication from the hearing was that if convicted of both, he could face somewhere between 36 and 150 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Assistant State’s Attorney Jonathon Schlake, reading from a police report, that Knox County Sheriff’s deputies entered an eastbound train for Chicago on Thursday where they identified Sharrow and found two “bricks” weighing 2.2 pounds and holding approximately 1,078 grams of cocaine among his possessions.
The state requested the half a million-dollar bail while the public defender’s asked for $50,000 — due to Sharrow’s lack of criminal history. Judge Lane sided with the prosecution do to the amount of the drug that was being transported.
Lane said he’d never seen that amount in a court case before saying he’d, “never even heard of that amount.”
As a condition of his bail, Sharrow is not allowed to leave the state. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Monday, October 28.
