Harvard Man Convicted of Cocaine Charge

A press release from State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally:

MAN FOUND GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DELIVER A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE COCAINE 1 < 15 GRAMS

Patrick D. Kenneally, McHenry County State’s Attorney, announced that 33 year-old Gregorio Pena of Harvard, Illinois, was found guilty, after a jury trial of the offenses of Unlawful Possession with the Intent to Deliver Cocaine 1 < 15 Grams and Unlawful Possession with the Intent to Deliver Heroin.

“We are losing about one person a week to drug overdoses in this community,” said Kenneally. “Holding the dealers that peddle this filth accountable and seeking extended prison terms is one part of how we are going to turn the tide.”

At approximately 12:15 a.m. on November 23, 2016, Harvard Police made a traffic stop on a vehicle in which Gregorio Pena was a passenger.

Pena was arrested on an active arrest warrant. Before being arrested, Pena was seen reaching down the right side of his seat.

During an inventory search of the vehicle, Harvard Police recovered a plastic container that contained multiple baggies of cocaine and heroin where Pena was reaching.

The street level value of the cocaine and heroin was approximately $1,000.

Pena will be sentenced on August 9, 2017.

He faces between 4 and 15 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant State’s Attorneys Alexander J. Geocaris and Kyle R. Bruett.


Comments

Harvard Man Convicted of Cocaine Charge — 6 Comments

  1. The problem is prison terms. Bring back the death penalty and use it.

  2. Can we get a title change?

    Or must the way we perceive events be tied down to legal criminal definitions?

    Title recommended change:

    Budding Entrepreneur and Families’ Future Destroyed over Consensual, Free Market Transaction.

  3. Calls for the death penalty are pretty.

    This is our reality.

    Putting to death people with loved ones doesn’t work.

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