Why the hell is he smiling his friend is dying and he is laughing disgusting

Here is another charge against him from back in November, this is pulled from another story on Patch. His face looked like I had seen it before on Patch and I was right...How many strikes do these deginerates of society get before we REALLY throw the book at them? And this time H is involved and that is something Will County is really trying to clean up. From other article: "Traffic Stop Leads to Drug Charge"
"Michael S. Matela, 19, of the block 22600 block of Limestone Court, was charged with possession of marijuana and failing to signal after a traffic stop near the intersection of Marilyn Way and Wolf Road in Mokena. Matela also was served for an outstanding Will County warrant for domestic battery. His court date is Nov. 10"

That may not be his mug shot - it could be a school photo.

Have these kids never seen Pulp Fiction?

School photos are not taken in front of a brick wall.

Forget about the flu epidemic.....this community is in the deadly grip of a heroin epidemic. This heroin epidemic needs to be talked about, it should be the lead story everyday. I know first hand, my two honor roll students are in recovery now. I am lucky. I don't want to hear about any more kids dying. This drug is a terrorist attack on our kids! As one of my sons friends said to me "it sucks that it is socially acceptable around here". Are you kidding me? Talk to your kids about heroin.

I am not confident that we are as a community really trying to crack down on the heroin/drug abuse. From what I have heard from the high school kids... it's very bad. Kids just coming up and asking if you want to buy heroin. Leaving 'packages' in lockers as a sample. Notes go out each week at the high school as to # of overdoses/etc but that is not made public. Think the police are too concerned with traffic violations and DUIs than really trying to crack down and figure out how to close the drug houses/etc.

Maybe lincoln-way and dist 157-c should step up and take some responsibility as a lot of this is happening within their walls. There is a serious problem where kids and adults are dying.

Way to go Frankfort police department, your DARE program is doing a great job. Is officer Donald Walsh still the DARE officer?

Maybe LW should make the asset of this month herion awareness ?

As a parent of a recovering addict to prescription medications I am pleading with parents to please urge your children to talk to someone if they know off someone that is using drugs. My son was close to overdosing a few times from what I have learned & his friends all tell more "I didn't want him to be mad at me for telling" my response is & always will be "would you rather he be dead" might be harsh but it is reality!!! Our children are dying & it could be prevented.

I completely agree with you Concerned, Lincolnway is too busy worrying about their blue ribbon award status than they are about what is going on in their hallways. Then they try to keep it hush hush so they don't lose their distinguished standing!!

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Unfortunately Theres no value on human life,its terrible..

How do we remove the Heroin? Police raids?,shooting people?rehabs?more law enforcement agencies besides the ATF,FBI.CIA,ICE,DIA,DHLS,..all of these groups track drugs....harsher laws for drugs?....wake up people we have been doing all of this and it is not helping....Now let's take a look at regulation not restriction...2 reasons drugs cause violence..the users lack of money to get drugs..and the profit made by drug dealers....in countries where drugs have been regulated the users need no money the drugs are free some need only a couple of bucks, the drug dealers money has been taken from them users get cleaner stuff from government facilities which causes less overdoses,no profit for dealers to mess with...drug violence has almost quit in some of the most violent places on earth...go figure..mexican cartels have now got into coal mining...

It starts at home . . .our children are given too many freedoms and aloud to do things I would never have dreamed of doing when I was their ages. From girls dressing like they are 25 years old when they are really 15, to the commercial exposé of television shows about teen pregnancy or under age drinking . . . we, as a society, have done a huge disservice to our children. We need to get control back . . . at it starts at home. Family meals, talking, and less freedoms to these KIDS. They are KIDS. They need us now more than ever.

I agree with Mr. Roberts. People are not going to stop using drug because the world sucks. Life isn't fair and were lied to about what life really means. Drug are an escape: if I take this pill, maybe my world will be perfect for at least alittle while. Wake up everyone! It's not pretty and maybe it goes against the delusions everyone seems to have built for themselves but this is how the world works. Spending all the money to incarcerate drug offending is breaking our state, money that should be spent on healthcare an education for the children. While I don't believe heroin should ever be publicly acceptable/distributed, regulation of other drugs such as marijuana, LSD, and mushrooms is correct course of action. Stop the "war on drugs" and lets make a compromise.

Doofus. Jerks like that kid are the reason I have to drive a big safe gas-guzzling truck.

I'd like to think the Police really care, but when Will County Sheriffs on Laraway lost 40,000 doses of heroin, well....

http://newlenox.patch.com/listings/will-county-sheriffs-department-laraway-substation

Haha your kids are messed up because your terrible parents. How dare you blame the police or schools. Maybe if you would have spent more time parenting and less time spoiling your kids they wouldn't do drugs. Your hick ass town has nice houses in the middle of nowhere with nothing for them to do bc they are a hour away from anything remotely exciting so they turn to drugs. Obviously the kid who was driving wasn't using heroine or he would have gotten a DUI also. But once again u geniuses(dumbasses) begin to judge a case before you can even make it through the charges. This is a classic case of a kid being overcharged because he was driving with bad people in his car. None of the charges will stick except pot and paraphernalia. Reckless driving will be thrown out bc of extreme circumstances of having a kid overdosing your car. This kid didn't give him the drugs, the person that should be on trial is the heroine user.

Drug rehab programs help 1% of seriously addicted users. Alcohol abuse is worse.

Only way to solve the heroin abuse problem: kill the heroin dealers.

Enough....

That would definitely be another way to solve it but the law calls that murder.

I grew up in new lenox and graduated in '05 I never heard of one kid in my class ever doing heroine what the hell is wrong with this kids booze and pot are normal but heroine what the hell is that its new lenox, mokena, and Frankfort. Not Robbins, Harvey, and dalton

This story in accurately describes the event. Clear he would have gotten a DUI if he was messed up on heroin as well! The swerving probably a result of attending to the passenger overdosing on heroin. He's being overcharged right now. The poliece always just try and clear up the scene as soon as possible. Way isn't the one who was actually using the heroine in any trouble??

This story in accurately describes the event. Clear he would have gotten a DUI if he was messed up on heroin as well! The swerving probably a result of attending to the passenger overdosing on heroin. He's being overcharged right now. The poliece always just try and clear up the scene as soon as possible. Way isn't the one who was actually using the heroine in any trouble??

The one thing that John Roberts needs to acknowledge is that if and when different drugs are decriminalized, there will be marketing teams pushing these drugs on our youth. Just like they can convince you that smoking cigarettes is cool, the same will go for pot, mushrooms, other drugs. Madison Avenue knows how to get the public to spend its money on any number of questionable things. So let's assume drug use will go up some. I personally don't think it would increase immensely, because the people who need drugs can get them right now. Many teens say drugs are easier to get than alcohol (which is a drug, by the way.)

What a joke... someone should bust that smile on his face with a right hook......

You’re all so quick to pass judgment. He will have his day in court and the truth will be revealed. How do we know those drugs were even his? We don't!! Sometimes we are guilty by association clearly the passenger is the one with the drug problem because he is the one that was overdosing. Nowhere in that article does it say the driver Michael Matela was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Maybe he was driving erratically because he was trying to get the passenger to safety. Everyone can assume things but there are always two sides to the story! The MEDIA always makes things worse than it really is!!!

It's only a matter of time until this loser is busted again.

You people are all horrible human beings

Uh Oh Cailee Olsson ??? bad words will get you off this board quick so BUH BYE

if you don't know him you can all stfu and not be so fast to judge he's a sweetheart and had nothing to do with the drugs so if his friend was stupid enough to do HEROIN oh well Micheal matela has no control over that get a life and atop being so fast to judge others when ypi have no clue

Please everyone stop !!! there is 1 thing you all left out in your 40 comments!!!! God God God!!!! Maybe you people should start telling your kids about God. Maybe raising them up in a Christian home. I tell my 14 year old that god loves him and he will never turn away. God is your answer .he is almighty. He could only take that addiction away from the kids- not you not me not dr but god. So quit blaming the system when it is the parents fault.

Chauncy,You made some good points but when you said"Not to overgeneralize, but if they go to the skateboard park, they're on drugs." I lost all respect for you. How dare you!

People wrongly assume that because he is young he must be doing drugs. Thank you Patch for posting the update. I hope Matela has found new friends to hang around with and that the passenger pulled through. So sad how some of these young people are throwing their lives away. I wish they would get help instead of trying to self medicate themselves.

So it's wrong to say that if someone goes to the skate park they are doing drugs, but its ok to say, this is New Lenox, Mokena and Franfort, not Harvey, Dolton, and Robbins? What is that supposed to mean? Is it true the school announces the number of overdoses weekly? Those numbers should be made more public perhaps that may help.

This kid went to my high school. He is a homosexual, pretty open about it. maybe he isnt know. Sometimes gays can result to drug use, but i have never heard of him doing heroin. I do not think he would do it either. Sometimes friends do stupid things that you can stop them from doing. Atleast he was driving him to hopefully get help. Next thing Mike should do is go teach his friend a lesson for getting him in trouble.