Bartlett man sentenced to 5 years

Bartlett resident Marquis Gillespie was sentenced Monday to five years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.

Originally, the charge was a super-Class X felony carrying a 15- to 60-year prison sentence, but prosecutors amended it to a Class 1 felony, and Gillespie pleaded guilty.

The hearing before Cook County Judge Thomas Fecarotta in Rolling Meadows began with prosecution witness David Smith, an investigator with the Bartlett police, testifying about the search warrant officers executed at Gillespie's home on the 2000 block of Norwich Drive about 7 a.m. Feb. 17.

Police recovered "a significant amount of cocaine," Smith said, much of it in a shoebox in Gillespie's bedroom closet.

Police arrested Gillespie outside the home and charged him with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.

At his February bond hearing, prosecutors said Gillespie had served about 31/2 years of a seven-year sentence for a 2001 conviction of possession of a controlled substance.