Former Des Plaines dean convicted of dealing heroin

A former Des Plaines educator has been found guilty of distributing heroin.

Brian Thurman, who lived on Chicago's West Side, was acquitted Thursday of possession of guns in connection with a drug crime. Authorities said Thurman was dean of discipline at Joseph Academy in Des Plaines at the time he was arrested.

U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall ordered the 44-year-old Thurman taken into custody and set his sentencing for Dec. 12.

Thurman was accused of selling heroin to a man who was then caught with the drugs while driving in Duluth, Minnesota, in 2013. The man became an informant and helped the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigate Thurman, who sold about 150 grams of heroin to the man in September 2013 and was arrested.