25-years for drug dealer who beat customer to death in Humboldt Park ’safety zone’

A man accused of beating another man to death because the victim gave him counterfeit money in a drug deal pleaded guilty Friday in exchange for a 25-year sentence.

Jacquail Jones, 25, was on bail for a stolen motor vehicle case when he murdered 52-year-old Michael Foley in a vacant lot on the corner of Chicago and Ridgeway avenues in Humboldt Park.

Adjacent to the lot, a Chicago Police Department surveillance camera hung from a light pole next to a small hand-painted billboard that declared the corner a “safety zone” with no gambling, drugs, or guns allowed…

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