Streator woman arrested after postal inspector flags package with purported ecstasy, ketamine, meth

A Streator woman was arrested Thursday after a U.S. postal inspector noticed a suspicious package containing illegal narcotics, authorities said.

The postal package contained 20 MDMA pills, 3.5 grams of ketamine and about 392 grams (about 0.86 pounds) of pressed methamphetamine pills, according to a news release from the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team.

April A. Dunning, 59, was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance (MDMA) with intent to deliver, both Class X felonies, as well as unlawful possession of cocaine with the intent to deliver, a Class 1 felony. A Class X felony conviction carries a six- to 30-year prison sentence in Illinois.

Tri-DENT agents, with the assistance of the Streator Police Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, executed a La Salle County search warrant at the residence in the 1600 block of North Sterling Street.

The U.S. postal inspector had done an inspection of the suspicious package in the receiving facility, authorities said. Upon inspection, it was determined that the package contained illegal narcotics, police said.

Tri-DENT agents assisted in the delivery of the package, according to the release. Upon execution of the search warrant, agents also recovered about 7 grams of cocaine (worth about $1,000), multiple digital scales and packaging material commonly used for distributing narcotics, according to Tri-DENT.

Dunning was taken to the Streator police station, where she was processed and given pretrial release with a court date in La Salle County.