Heroin charges for Carpentersville man

A Carpentersville man already on parole for a drug-related conviction was back behind bars Saturday, accused of dealing heroin.

Joshua Clay Hampton, 21, of the 100 block of Austin Avenue, faces charges of manufacturing or delivering heroin within 1,000 feet of a school, park or church; manufacturing or delivering between 1 and 15 grams of heroin; possession of a controlled substance; escape of a felon from a penal institution; and criminal damage to government property in excess of $500 damage.

All five charges are felonies, the most serious of which is punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

He was arrested at 5:40 p.m. Friday in the 200 block of South Lincoln Avenue by undercover officers, said Carpentersville Police Cmdr. Timothy Bosshart.

They reported finding a plastic bag, containing three other plastic bags, in a sock he was wearing. The bags contained 3.77 grams of a substance that field-tested positive for heroin, Bosshart said.

At the police station, Hampton was placed in a locked interview room. When officers returned, they discovered he was using a piece of scrap metal, likely pulled from an old desk in the room, to jimmy the door lock, Bosshart said.

Hampton was in custody Saturday at the Kane County jail after a judge set his bail at $500,000. The Illinois Department of Corrections also has a parole hold on him.

Department of Corrections records indicate Hampton had been paroled in July after serving part of a four-year prison sentence in a 2009 drug case out of Carpentersville.

His next court date is March 10.

In the 2009 case, Hampton was accused of arranging a heroin sale with undercover officers, then delivering them crack cocaine.