ISLAND LAKE MAN SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS FOR DRUG-INDUCED HOMICIDE RE: Daniel R. Carmody: Age 48 (d.o.b. 08-13-1976), of the 100 block of Southern Terrace, Island Lake, Illinois. Case No. 2021CF1584. St. Charles, Ill. - Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie L. Mosser announces that Daniel R. Carmody has agreed to a sentence of six years of imprisonment in the Illinois Department of Corrections in exchange for a guilty plea to the offense of drug-induced homicide, a class X felony. Judge D.J. Tegeler accepted the plea. Assistant State’s Attorney Kelly Orland stated in court that on or around May 10, 2021, Carmody unlawfully delivered heroin and cocaine to the victim, 31-year-old Daniel Liewald of St. Charles. Liewald ingested the substances. He was found to have died from fentanyl and cocaine intoxication. 

 October 10, 2019 A Carpentersville man will go to prison for possessing cocaine he planned to deliver. 52-year-old Lamelle T. Johnson today agreed to a sentence of 11 years’ imprisonment in the Illinois Department of Corrections in exchange for a guilty plea to the offense of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, Class X felony. Kane County Circuit Judge John A. Barsanti accepted the plea. Kane County Assistant State’s Attorney Mark D. Stajdohar stated in court that at about 4:45 p.m. Nov. 2, 2018, Carpentersville police served a search warrant at Johnson’s residence in the 1100 block of Chippewa Circle, Carpentersville. Johnson saw the officers approach his home and closed and locked his door. When officers entered Johnson’s home, they found him in his bedroom shoving cocaine into his mouth. As an officer approached him, Johnson threw cocaine in the officer’s face. Officers found in Johnson’s home just less than 28 grams of cocaine with an estimated street value of $2,790, three digital scales with cocaine residue, and $8,148 in cash.