From the State’s Attorney:
JOEL W. TYNIS SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS IN THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FOR THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office announces that Joel Tynis, 38, of Holiday Hills, Illinois, was sentenced to ten years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
The sentence was handed down on March 3, 2025, by the Honorable Judge Tiffany Davis after Tynis entered a negotiated plea of guilty to one count of Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance (Heroin), a Class 1 felony.
On January 6, 2022, officers of the McHenry City Police Department arrested Tynis on an outstanding warrant stemming from an investigation of an overdose death of a McHenry city resident.
After his arrest, during a pat-down, officers located on Tynis’s person over seventy-five individual baggies containing a total of approximately thirty-nine grams of heroin.
Lab tests affirmed that the substances located in each of the baggies tested positive for heroin.
McHenry County State’s Attorney Randi Freese commends the thorough investigative efforts of Det. Ryan Ehardt and the McHenry City Police Department, along with the forensic efforts from the Illinois State Police Rockford Forensic Science Laboratory.
The Office remains committed to the zealous prosecution of those who possess, deliver, or distribute illegal narcotics in our county.
This case was successfully prosecuted by Assistant State’s Attorneys Matthew Brodersen and Justin Neubauer.
