Man pleads not guilty to dealing crack in Aurora

A Chicago has pleaded not guilty to charges he sold drugs to undercover officers in the Western suburbs.

Michael A. Mattix, 46, of the 1900 block of North Sayre Avenue, was arraigned Wednesday in front of Kane County Judge Thomas E. Mueller, who set his next court date for Dec. 11.

Mattix was one of two Chicago men arrested in early September on charges of calculated criminal drug conspiracy and cocaine possession and delivery.

Officials at the North Central Narcotics Task Force say Mattix and his co-defendant, David J. Johnson, 37, routinely dealt crack cocaine in the suburbs and sold it to narcotics agents in Aurora twice over the summer. The two were arrested in Lisle after they failed to show up for a third drug buy, police said.

Calculated criminal drug conspiracy is a Class X felony with a standard sentencing range of six to 30 years in prison.

Both men remained in the county jail Thursday on $150,000 bonds. Johnson, who hasn't entered a plea yet, returns to court Dec. 4.