'Auntie' whose Lexus got caught up in CPD narcotics bust, is now department's 2nd in command

CHICAGO — Yolanda Talley, whose Lexus was scooped up throughout a Chicago Police Division narcotics investigation whereas she was head of the company’s inside affairs division, has been promoted to First Deputy Superintendent, making her the highest-ranking officer behind Supt. Larry Snelling.

In February 2022, Chicago cops noticed a ceaselessly arrested man named Kenneth Miles choose up a colourful bag subsequent to a parked automobile and enter the passenger seat of a silver Lexus sedan owned by Talley.

Because the officers adopted the automobile, Miles allegedly threw a big Ziploc bag containing 84 baggies of suspected heroin from Talley’s passenger-side window. Road worth of the dope, per prosecutors: $6,300.

Cops stopped the Lexus, which was being pushed by Talley’s niece, who had borrowed the car from the interior affairs chief.

“My auntie might be your boss,” the girl instructed officers as their physique cameras rolled, a warning that they have been coping with somebody associated to a high-ranking CPD officer.

WGN reported that police returned Talley’s automobile to her niece after Miles’ arrest, although the niece was driving on a suspended license. Questions continued to be raised about why CPD returned the chief’s Lexus when the division routinely seizes the automobiles of strange residents in a lot smaller narcotics circumstances.

Talley was by no means accused of being concerned within the incident, apart from loaning her automobile to a relative. Nevertheless, CPD’s superintendent on the time, David Brown, benched the entire officers who arrested Miles that day with out offering a public clarification.

CWBChicago later reported completely that Miles was additionally the “John Doe” who offered incorrect data to Chicago cops that resulted within the notorious mistaken raid on Anjanette Younger’s house.

Now, Talley will change into Snelling’s prime aide, answerable for the division’s day-to-day operations. The submit has been vacant because the final “first,” Eric Carter, retired within the spring of 2023.

Talley is a 30-year CPD veteran and turns into the division’s first second-in-command, in keeping with the division’s press launch asserting her promotion.

As for Miles, he in the end obtained a two-year sentence for tossing the heroin from Talley’s automobile plus one other two years for a separate drug case he was on bail for on the time of the incident.