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Elgin man who sold heroin to undercover cops pleads guilty

An Elgin man is headed to prison for his role in the delivery of heroin near an Elgin park.

Rinnell Mallory, 43, of the 500 block of Van Street, agreed to a 13½ year prison sentence in exchange for a guilty plea to unlawful delivery of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a park, a Class X felony.

Mallory sold heroin or arranged for heroin to be sold to undercover officers on at least six occasions during a 2013 police investigation. The sale that took place in the vicinity of a park happened near Foundry Park in the 100 block of North State Street.

"Heroin overdoses are at epidemic levels in the Chicago area and across the county," Kane County State's Attorney Joe McMahon said in a statement. "It is of critical importance that we send a strong message that peddling this poison in Kane County will not be tolerated.

Charges against two other co-defendants picked up in the same police investigation are pending. One is charged with five counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. The other is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.

The case was prosecuted by Kane County Assistant State's Attorney Kelly Orland. Circuit Judge Susan Clancy Boles accepted the plea.

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