Elgin man gets 8-year sentence in Carpentersville cocaine bust

An Elgin man was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty Friday to charges stemming from an undercover Carpentersville police investigation that he was selling drugs near an elementary school.

Fredy Fortoso, 32, of the 500 block of Gale Street, also was fined $12,365, according to court documents. Kane County Judge James C. Hallock accepted the plea.

Fortoso was arrested April 15, 2011, on numerous felony charges that he sold cocaine three times in March 2011 within 1,000 feet of St. Catherine of Siena Elementary School, 845 W. Main St., West Dundee, according to court records.

Prosecutors dropped those charges in exchange for a guilty plea of delivery of a controlled substance.

He faced a maximum of 30 years in prison. A message left for defense attorney John Doherty was not immediately returned.

Fortoso gets credit for a year in jail while his case was pending. He also can have his sentence halved for good behavior.