Country Club Hills Man, 44, Gets 16 Years For Selling Laced Heroin

CHICAGO, IL — A County Club Hills man has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for selling fentanyl-laced heroin, prosecutors said last week.

Calvin Carter, 44,sold the drugs on two occasions in the fall of 2019, according to the US Attorney's Office of the Northern District of Illinois. The first sale occurred in a gas station parking lot in Olympia Fields, and the second occurred in a liquor store parking lot in Country Club Hills. The buyer in both transactions was surreptitiously cooperating with law enforcement.

Carter pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal drug distribution charges. In delivering the 16-year prison sentence on June 20, U.S. District Judge Manish S. Shah found that the government proved Carter had a firearm in connection with the drug offenses. Multiple firearms were discovered during a court-authorized search of Carter’s residence shortly after the drug sales, according to the state's attorney's office.

"Defendant possessed almost one kilogram of heroin and fentanyl that he intended to distribute to others," Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Niranjan Emani argued in the government’s sentencing memorandum. "The type of drugs that defendant sold and intended for distribution have devastating effects on the community."