Palatine man gets jail for probation violation
A Palatine man was ordered Monday to spend a year in jail when not working or attending school after he admitted violating his probation on a drug conviction.
Shemule Isreal, 25, also was given an additional 18 months of probation and was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service during a hearing before Lake County Circuit Judge James Booras.
Assistant State's Attorney Danielle Pascucci said Isreal, of the 700 block of Rand Groves Road, was arrested Jan. 27, 2009.
He had sold about three grams of cocaine to an undercover agent of the Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group a few days earlier for $120, then was taken into custody after selling the same agent about an ounce of cocaine for $925 in a Lake Zurich parking lot.
Isreal was placed on probation for two years when he pleaded guilty to delivery of a controlled substance on April 29, 2009.
On Dec. 5, 2011, Isreal admitted he had violated that probation by not reporting to his probation officer from February through April of last year and failing to complete drug treatment.
Isreal could have faced a maximum of seven years in prison for the probation violation.