{"id":8505,"date":"2026-04-02T03:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8505"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:46:50","slug":"princeton-man-busted-with-cocaine-guns-shawlocal-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8505","title":{"rendered":"Princeton man busted with cocaine, guns &#8211; shawlocal.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"robot-feature-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shawlocal.com\/resizer\/lzXyusWXwl1VKOC88kKi8VUyT3I%3D\/1200x630\/filters%3Aformat%28jpg%29%3Aquality%2870%29\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/shawmedia\/UPR2RT3RARA6TDUV3YQ6CQYJ44.jpg?w=860&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/><span>A rural Princeton man faces up to 60 years in prison after drug agents said they seized more than a pound of cocaine and 22 firearms in a Friday raid. <\/span>(Jayce Eustice)<br \/>A rural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/princeton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Princeton<\/a> man faces up to 60 years in prison after drug agents said they seized more than a pound of cocaine and 22 firearms in a raid Friday.<br \/>Robert T. Lucas Jr., 59, of 12926 2775E St., Princeton, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance (cocaine) with intent to deliver, more than 900 grams, and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon.<br \/>The controlling charge \u2013 for the purported cocaine \u2013 is a Super Class X felony that has a sentencing range of 15 to 60 years in prison with no possibility of probation because the weight exceeded 900 grams, police said.<br \/>If convicted, Lucas would be required to serve 75% of any resulting prison sentence.<br \/>Agents with the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team conducted a search warrant at Lucas\u2019 residence in cooperation with the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations team (Springfield Division), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/bureau-county\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau County<\/a> Sheriff\u2019s Office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/depue\/\" target=\"_blank\">DePue<\/a> Police Department and Bureau County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office.<br \/>Lucas was taken to the Bureau County Jail to await a detention hearing.<br \/>Shaw Local News Network provides local news throughout northern Illinois<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilwFBVV95cUxOTVpUYUx2RTR1ZW5pV1hWcFVMVFY4WExnNEczX3pKN196THVkaXkxM0Nva0dXVC00QnpwdlZoUEJFQ3lKWDhhREJUckJIZmN6LWlCYjlrTzZ4bEJCWjBPcDBqLXk5QzJIdVNNTmtvZG54NmVvRWRQNG1GREVuWUFRdFZycm5xOV9SZ0pTQ0NEYlZJc2RINF9B?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rural Princeton man faces up to 60 years in prison after drug agents said they seized more than a pound of cocaine and 22 firearms in a Friday raid. (Jayce Eustice)A rural Princeton man faces up to 60 years in prison after drug agents said they seized more than a pound of cocaine and 22 firearms in a raid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}