{"id":402686,"date":"2026-01-12T09:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402686\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:21:15","slug":"18-dogs-puppies-seized-in-ford-heights-illinois-drug-bust-at-lincoln-highway-and-deer-creek-lane-cook-county-sheriffs-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402686\/","title":{"rendered":"18 dogs, puppies seized in Ford Heights, Illinois drug bust at Lincoln Highway and Deer Creek Lane: Cook County Sheriff’s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team \"WLS<\/p>\n

Sunday, January 11, 2026 11:31PM<\/p>\n

\"Officials<\/p>\n

FORD HEIGHTS, Ill. (WLS) — Investigators shared pictures of eighteen dogs and puppies they recovered in a drug bust in the south suburbs.<\/p>\n

They also seized several weapons, cash and drugs in the Ford Heights bust.<\/p>\n

ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office says some of the dogs were in cramped cages.<\/p>\n

They were found when authorities executed a search warrant at Lincoln Highway and Deer Creek Lane.<\/p>\n

Two men are in custody and facing charges.<\/p>\n

The dogs are now at Cook County Animal Care and Control.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Sunday, January 11, 2026 11:31PM FORD HEIGHTS, Ill. (WLS) — Investigators shared pictures of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[194298,23,194296,3071,2681,67724,67722,2605,194295,194297,3,68755,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-402686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-194298","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cook-county-sheriffs-office","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-dogs","13":"tag-drug-arrest","14":"tag-drug-bust","15":"tag-drugs","16":"tag-ford-heights-il","17":"tag-ford-heights-illinois","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-puppies","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}