Shooter Get Eight Years

From the States Attorney:

The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office announces that on November 19, 2024, Jacob A. Mains, 25, of Belvidere, was sentenced to 8 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm.

Mains sentence was part of a negotiated plea of guilty entered before the Honorable Judge Tiffany E. Davis. 

On the evening of October 26, 2023, Marengo Police Department officers were dispatched to Kennedy Drive for a wellness check where a firearm was involved.

The caller reported that Mains had entered the home at the leaseholder’s request to order unwanted persons to leave the premises.

After a confrontation with a person inside the home, Mains left the home.

Before returning to a waiting vehicle, he fired two shots through the home’s attached garage door.

Mains has a prior felony conviction for residential burglary, which makes even possessing a firearm a felony crime.

McHenry County State’s Attorney Randi Freese thanks the Marengo Police Department, Belvidere Police Department, and McHenry County Sheriff’s Office for their thorough investigative efforts.

A special thanks goes out to Assistant State’s Attorney Ashley Romito for her thorough prosecution of this case. Improper gun usage has serious consequences and those who misuse them will be prosecuted.