Crystal Lake teen gets prison for selling drugs outside high school

A 19-year-old Crystal Lake man was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison after he admitted guilt to allegations he dealt cocaine outside a local high school.

Jeremy R. Reid, of the 100 block if Illinois, pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance stemming from claims he sold drugs to an undercover police officer Dec. 8 in the driveway of Crystal Lake Central High School.

Reid was not a student at the school and there is no evidence he was selling drugs to students, authorities said.

Besides the prison time, Reid was ordered Tuesday to make $505 restitution to the North Central Narcotics Task Force, money the law enforcement agency had paid him in undercover drug buys.

In exchange for the guilty plea, McHenry County prosecutors lowered the charge against Reid from a Class X to a Class 1 felony, allowing him to take a four-year sentence instead of a minimum six required under the original charge. Prosecutors also dismissed three other drug-related charges filed in connection with the narcotics investigation.