(La Porte County, IN) - A man returning home from Chicago was found during a traffic stop in La Porte County with a brick of cocaine.  Those are the allegations faced in La Porte Circuit Court by Keisand Santiago-Maldonado, 32, of Milton, Pennsylvania.

According to court documents, a sheriff’s deputy stopped him October 17th for erratic driving on the Indiana Toll Road near Rolling Prairie.  The driver said he made the 10 hour trip during the night to visit his grandmother, but the officer felt it was strange for him to be returning home less than three hours later, according to police.

Police said the officer’s increasing suspicions led to a search of the vehicle and recovery of a grocery bag containing a brick of cocaine wrapped in foil.  Depending on purity, the estimated value of the cocaine weighing one kilogram was placed at $30,000 or more.

Santiago-Maldonado could face anywhere from a 10 year to 30 year sentence on a Level 2 felony charge of dealing cocaine.