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

A Streator woman was arrested Thursday after a United States Postal Inspector noticed a suspicious package containing illegal narcotics, according to authorities.

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, unlawful possession of controlled substance (MDMA) with intent to deliver, both Class X felonies, and 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 United States Postal Inspector executed a La Salle County search warrant at the residence on 1602 N. Sterling St., Streator.

The United States Postal Inspector had done an inspection of the suspicious package in the receiving facility, authorities said. Upon inspection it was determined the package contained illegal narcotics, police said.

Tri-DENT agents assisted in the delivery of the package, the news release said. Upon execution of the search warrant on the residence agents also recovered the following: about seven grams of cocaine (about $1,000 worth of product), 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 a pretrial release with a court date for La Salle County.