Five arrested on drug charges in Rantoul

URBANA – Champaign County sheriff's deputies arrested five people Tuesday at a home in Rantoul that police had been watching for drug trafficking.

Lt. Ed Ogle said members of his department's street crimes unit received information about cocaine sales going on at the home of Howard Baker, 27, of the 400 block of East Campbell Ave. Having investigated him for several months, on Tuesday they obtained a search warrant, which they served about 6 p.m.

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