10-year prison term for Aurora man who threw heroin out window
A 32-year-old Aurora man who authorities said threw heroin and other drugs out his apartment window during a police search has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
This will be the third time Vincent Lewis has been in the Illinois Department of Corrections. He also was fined $7,500.
Lewis was arrested in January after authorities executed a search warrant at an apartment on the 200 block of Plum Street on the city's west side, police said.
Police said Lewis broke a first-floor window and tossed eight ounces of heroin, a half ounce of crack cocaine and 4.5 ounces of marijuana outside as officers tried to search the house. Authorities also seized $584 in the search.
Lewis pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, a felony that carried a prison term of six to 30 years with no chance of probation.
Judge D.J. Tegeler accepted the guilty plea last week, records show.
Under state law, the prison term can be cut in half for good behavior; Lewis also gets 231 days' credit toward his sentence for time served at the Kane County jail while the case was pending.
According to court records, Lewis was sentenced to a year in prison after arguing with his girlfriend in Batavia in August 2007 and kicking down her apartment door. Before that, he served half a four-year prison term from a 2005 arrest in Aurora on a charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, records show.
Lewis also had felony arrests in 2004 for unlawful possession of a credit card and in 2000 for aggravated battery to a teacher.