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By: Clifford Ward
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An Aurora man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for drug convictions, Kane County authorities said Thursday.
Peter A. Cotts, 43, of the 1200 block of Pleasant Place, was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Susan Clancy Boles, who had found Cotts guilty following a bench trial held in April.
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By Natasha Korecki
Sporting a tan, lighter (but not gray) hair and five pounds more muscle, Rod Blagojevich hasn’t found prison too cruel, his onetime lawyer says.
Of course, Blagojevich just began his 14-year sentence about a month ago, and he’s spent it working in the kitchen washing pots and pans and doing some chores outdoors.
For the first 90 days, prison inmates must do menial jobs, says his onetime attorney, Sam Adam Jr.
But by the summer, Blagojevich hopes to land a job in the library, to teach Shakespeare or Greek Mythology.
Sam Adam Jr. and his father, Sam Adam, both visited the former governor on Sunday in federal prison outside of Denver. The report is the first public glimpse of what the ex-governor is facing behind bars. Blagojevich is the second Illinois governor doing prison time right now. Former Gov. George Ryan is serving a 6 1/2 sentence
Adam Jr. said he, his father and his son took a train ride across the country to visit the former client. The two represented Blagojevich in his first trial, which ended in a mistrial on all but one count.
Patti Blagojevich and the couple’s two daughters saw Rod Blagojevich in prison about two weeks ago.
He’s no longer allowed to dye his hair as his longtime barber has admitted to doing for years. But Blagojevich is “not at all” gray, Sam Adam Jr. reports. “It’s brown. Who knew?”
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Rod Blagojevich may have a problem with hidden recording devices, but the convicted former governor rarely met a camera he didn’t like and that held true even Wednesday with a choreographed-for-TV farewell on the eve of his imprisonment.
Showman to the end, Blagojevich emerged from his Ravenswood Manor bungalow in an appearance timed to catch the top of 5 p.m. newscasts. He launched into a campaign-style monologue reciting a laundry list of accomplishments and insisting he never intentionally broke the law.
“I believe I always, always thought about what was right for the people,” said Blagojevich as his wife, Patti, stood by his side and teared up.
Blagojevich, due to begin a 14-year sentence for corruption Thursday at a federal prison in Colorado, spoke for 10 minutes, interrupted only by shouts of encouragement from hundreds of well-wishers and gawkers gathered on his lawn along with TV crews.
He then mingled for more than a half-hour, signing autographs on everything from an ATM receipt to an M&M wrapper and ignoring his 8-year-old daughter, Annie, as she tapped on his elbow and pleaded: “Come on. You’ve signed enough, Daddy.”
Given the abundance of ex-Illinois governors sent to prison, it may come as a surprise that there appears to be no set protocol for their exit from public view.George Ryan went defiantly, declaring that he had “a clear conscience” and would continue a fight to clear his name.
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An ex-convict from Naperville will be returning to prison for five years, after being convicted of narcotics and stolen property crimes he committed last year within seven months of each other.
DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Blanche Hill Fawell sentenced the man, Christopher C. Partin, to four years in prison on a felony charge of the manufacture or delivery of at least one but fewer than 14 grams of heroin.
Fawell also sentenced Partin to an additional year in prison on an amended charge of retail theft not exceeding $300, according to court records.
Partin, 25, is no stranger to the state penal system. He was sentenced in 2006 to seven years in prison, after being convicted of donning a mask and robbing a man on July 9, 2005, as the victim walked on South Julian Street in Naperville’s East Highlands neighborhood.
Court records indicated Partin was sentenced Tuesday for a February 2011 drug-possession crime, along with the Sept. 12 theft of merchandise from the Mobil service station at 75th Street and Plainfield-Naperville Road in west-central Naperville.
In the first case, members of the Naperville police intelligence unit arrested Partin in his home on the 500 block of Fessler Avenue, in the Villages of West Glen area of the city.
Police Sgt. Gregg Bell said last year Partin had been selling drugs in town for some time, but only to those he knew or who had been referred to him by friends.
Undercover investigators eventually gained Partin’s trust and bought narcotics from him. Police on Feb. 24, 2011 executed a search warrant at his home, from which they confiscated three grams of heroin, a quarter-pound of marijuana, 35 Hydrocodone pills, an assortment of drug paraphernalia and a .38-caliber handgun.
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Ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich will make a statement outside his Ravenswood Manor home on Wednesday afternoon next week, a day before he is scheduled to report to a federal prison in Colorado to begin serving a 14-year sentence for corruption, according to his publicist.
Glenn Selig says Blagojevich “never considered ‘sneaking’ out of Chicago” without saying goodbye. Blagojevich will make the statement at a time to be announced Wednesday. He says Blagojevich won’t answer questions.
A federal judge ordered the 55-year-old to report to prison next Thursday.
Since his December sentencing, Blagojevich hasn’t granted interviews. His attorneys say he wants to enter prison “with dignity” and without a media frenzy.
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A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to six years in prison for participating in an Ecstasy ring broken up last fall by Naperville police.
Two other men and two women still face trial in the case, in which at least 500 Ecstasy pills were allegedly sold to undercover police officers.
Ian E. Lona, of Berkeley, was found guilty of a felony charge of the manufacture or delivery of at least 200 but fewer than 600 Ecstasy pills, according to records on file in DuPage County Circuit Court in Wheaton. Three other narcotics-related charges and one count of resisting or obstructing a police officer were dismissed in the case, records indicated.
Judge John J. Kinsella on Thursday sentenced Lona to prison, giving him just under five months of credit toward his term for time he has spent in DuPage County Jail since being arrested, records showed. Kinsella also ordered Lona be placed on three years of mandatory supervised release following his parole and assessed fines and court costs totaling $3,030, according to records.
Members of the police department’s Special Operations Group in October rounded up and arrested Lona and four alleged associates: Marchello L. Hicks, 29, and Timothy N. Morris, 28, both of Chicago; and Gilda L. Ruales, 26, and Teresa I. Sanchez, 20, both of Aurora.
Police Sgt. Nick Liberio identified Morris as a drug dealer who acted as a “go-between” for dealers in Chicago and the Naperville-Aurora area.
Morris was arrested just after midnight Oct. 6 on Chicago’s west side. Lona, Ruales and Sanchez were nabbed 14 hours later on the 1600 block of North Route 59 on Naperville’s far northwest side. Hicks was taken into custody later.
Liberio said Ruales was arrested in August for selling cocaine in Aurora. That triggered the Naperville police investigation, during which detectives learned Ruales and Sanchez were allegedly selling drugs in both cities.
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By Harry Hitzeman
Four shots fired five years ago took a life and sent two Naperville brothers to prison for a total of 135 years.
A 21-year-old gang member was sentenced Wednesday to 60 years in prison for his role in a 2007 shooting death on Aurora’s east side.
Kane County Judge Timothy Sheldon imposed the sentence on Justin Cavazos, of Naperville, after he was convicted of first-degree murder of 15-year-old Oscar Rodriguez of Aurora.
Cavazos faced 35 to 75 years for two counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm and unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle.
Cavazos’ brother, Joshua, 22, also of Naperville, was sentenced to 80 years in prison for firing the gun that killed Rodriguez.
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By Harry Hitzeman
One of four people arrested last spring on charges of selling counterfeit designer purses and other goods at the Kane County Flea Market hopes to enter the county’s program for first-time, nonviolent offenders, his attorney said.
Ying Fu, 47, of the 1600 block of West 35th Street, Chicago, is charged with Violating the Counterfeit Trademark Act, a felony that carries a top prison term of seven years if convicted, with probation also an option.
Justin Sather, Fu’s defense attorney, said his client and family are trying to raise $15,000, which is the minimum statutory fine for the felony charges, in order to be accepted into Kane’s Second Chance Program.
Sather said prosecutors want Fu to pay the fine up front before considering his admission into the program, which gives offenders a chance to wipe their record clean if they say out of trouble for a year and complete community service.
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Print this page.By Bill Bird
A former Naperville resident has been sentenced to five years in prison for selling ecstasy on the city’s far southwest side.
Destinee E. Clementi was originally charged with two Class X felony counts of the manufacture of ecstasy pills, and could have served as much as 40 years in prison upon conviction. She was found guilty of a reduced charge of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, said Charles B. Pelkie, spokesman for Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow.
Will County Circuit Court Judge Sarah F. Jones on Monday convicted Clementi and sentenced her to prison, but also recommended she be evaluated for possible enrollment in the Illinois Department of Corrections’ alternative “boot camp” program.
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Print this page.By: Clifford Ward
An Elk Grove Village man was sentenced to prison Friday for leading police on a chase that started on Chicago’s North Side and ended in Elgin, where the man was shot by police after hitting an officer with his car.
Andrzej Wojtkielewicz, 24, was sentenced in Kane County to seven years in prison. In September, a jury convicted him of aggravated battery to a police officer but acquitted him on a more serious charge of attempted murder.
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