an inspector with the Illinois State Police to Task Force X, a multijurisdictional group of law-enforcement officers assigned to narcotics investigations. Beals indicated defendant agreed to deliver cocaine to him and described defendant as a young, slight-built Hispanic male who would be at the Aldi's parking lot at approximately 7 p.m. driving a gray pickup truck.
Inspector Rawdin testified for the State and corroborated Beals's testimony. Surveillance of the Aldi's parking lot was established and Inspector Rawdin testified a gray pickup truck with a young Hispanic male driver entered the lot shortly before 7 p.m. The driver exited the vehicle and began looking around the parking lot. Two Champaign police sergeants apprehended the man. Inspector Rawdin approached defendant immediately after he was apprehended. He heard Sergeant Jon Swenson telldefendant he wanted to talk to him about the cocaine in his pocket. He then heard the suspect tell Sergeant Swenson he bought the cocaine from a black male on a street corner for $500. Inspector Rawdin identified a driver's license photograph of defendant as the same individual he saw driving the pickup truck and taken into custody.
Inspector Rawdin stated at the time he was taken into custody defendant was in possession of what the lab later determined to be approximately 23 grams of cocaine. Rawdin stated it had a street value of approximately $2,300. He understood from his conversations with Beals one ounce of cocaine was to be delivered and an ounce consisted of 28 grams. Inspector Rawdin stated in his experience as a narcotics investigator, cocaine