K9 team assists in three drug busts at Amtrak station

GALESBURG — Over the course of Labor Day weekend, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from Galesburg police, seized about 28 pounds of cannabis, along with methamphetamine, LSD and 12 grams of psychedelic mushrooms in three separate incidents.

On Monday, with the help of K9 Juri, Jabari L. Lyn, 54, Greenacres, Florida, was arrested at 12:26 p.m. on charges of cannabis trafficking, manufacture/delivery of cannabis, and resisting a police officer at the Galesburg Amtrak station.

Lyn, who had been apprehended after a short foot chase, was found to have about 5 pounds of cannabis in the backpack he was wearing, and in a suitcase with his name on it at the station was another 16.5 pounds of cannabis.

He was transported to Knox County jail, where he is being held on $100,000 bond along with a hold from the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Department.

K9 Glock assisted in two separate incidents on Saturday and Sunday.

On Sunday, in luggage at the Amtrak station, two plastic containers of LSD, 1 gram of methamphetamine, about 12 grams of psychedelic mushrooms, and about 125 grams of cannabis was found.

On Saturday, a package that contained about 2,930 grams of cannabis was intercepted.

These two incidents remain under investigation, and no arrests have been announced.