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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Tom Schuba

CPD chief’s niece told cops who busted her boyfriend for heroin, ‘My auntie’s probably your boss,’ source says

Mayor Lori Lightfoot greets then-Cmdr. Yolanda Talley before a news conference at the 10th District police station in Lawndale in August 2020. | Pat Nabong / Sun-Times file

A Lexus belonging to the Chicago Police Department’s chief of internal affairs, Yolanda Talley, wasn’t impounded after cops found 42 grams of heroin during a traffic stop earlier this month — raising questions about whether she got favorable treatment.

Talley’s niece was behind the wheel of the car when officers stopped it on Feb. 1 in the 500 block of North St. Louis Avenue and saw her passenger, Kenneth Miles, 34, try to ditch 84 packets of heroin valued at $6,300, according to police records and a source familiar with the investigation.

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