A 2020 felony conviction for burglary; a 2011 felony conviction for delivering cocaine; a 2001 felony conviction for delivering cocaine near a school; a 1998 felony conviction for delivering cocaine; a 1989 felony conviction for delivering cocaine; a 1988 felony conviction for burglary and a 1980 felony conviction for armed robbery.
Sixty-one-year-old James Johnson of Elgin has been committing crimes since 1980. Forthy-three years. And yet somehow he was on the streets, enabled to commit what is likely his last crime, unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, Class 1 felony.
Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie L. Mosser announced that Johnson has agreed to a sentence of 17½ years of imprisonment in the Illinois Department of Corrections in exchange for a guilty plea to the offense.
According to prosecutors, on April 7, 2021, Johnson sold more than a gram of cocaine to an undercover officer from the Elgin Police Department near Hickory Place and Hill Avenue in Elgin.
“Elgin is a safer place with Mr. Johnson, a career criminal, in prison instead of selling cocaine on the city’s streets,” said Assistant State’s Attorney Hillary Sadler. “My thanks to all at the Elgin Police Department who worked on this investigation and continue to help remove drug dealers from the city’s streets.”
