The Brief
- A Bolingbrook man was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison after being convicted of drug-induced homicide.
- Prosecutors say he sold fentanyl pills to a 27-year-old Aurora man, who later died from an overdose.
- The defendant must serve at least 75% of his sentence under Illinois law.
CHICAGO – A Bolingbrook man has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison in connection with a fatal fentanyl overdose in Kane County.
Eric L. Jones, 54, was sentenced to 12.5 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections after a jury found him guilty of drug-induced homicide earlier this year, according to a statement from the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office.
The backstory:…