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Train Taken to Chicago for Drugs

(Porter County, IN) - Two Chesterton men are accused of taking a South Shore commuter train to purchase drugs in Chicago. 

 

Authorities say the suspects took the train Friday and returned with fentanyl, methamphetamine and pills along with syringes and other drug paraphernalia.

 

Acting on a tip, Police arrested the men when they stepped off the train upon their return that evening to the Dune Park station outside Chesterton.

 

31 year old Matthew Stephens and 37 year old Joseph Brunsvold were being held in the Porter County Jail on multiple counts.

 

 

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