URBANA – A Chicago man is due back in court next month after being charged with having crack cocaine intended for sale.

Lamont Harris, 24, of Chicago, faces six to 30 years in prison if convicted of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

State police arrested Harris Friday at the Illinois Terminal in downtown Champaign after finding suspected cocaine on him and in his belongings following a safety sweep at the terminal.

State's Attorney Julia Rietz said Harris was a passenger on a Greyhound bus that a drug-sniffing dog checked out.

While the dog was sniffing, so were troopers who learned Harris' name and date of birth, and that he had an outstanding warrant from another county. About that time, the dog alerted to the presence of drugs in a backpack that Harris said was his.

Harris was arrested on the warrant and searched. In his right front coat pocket, troopers found eight rocks of crack cocaine, weighing about 4.9 grams. At the jail they found another rock of crack cocaine in Harris' pants pocket weighing less than a half gram.

Rietz said Harris told police he found the cocaine but admitted he planned to sell it.

When the trooper who took Harris to the jail searched his car after leaving the jail, he found three plastic bags behind his back seat that weren't there before Harris' arrest.

One bag had 15 rocks of crack, a second had 19 rocks of crack, and a third had nine smaller bags of cannabis weighing about 9 grams.

Harris told police the drugs in the squad car were not his.

The total weight of the cocaine that police believe belonged to Harris was 23 grams – enough to make his crime a Class X felony.

Harris is being held in lieu of $250,000 bond and is supposed to be back in court March 22.