By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News
(CHICAGO) A Chicago drug dealer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for trying to kill a federal informant.
Kelsey Jones sold crack and heroin on Chicago’s west side and western suburbs and feds say Jones and his associates tried to kill an informant on two occasions in the spring of 2014. They say it was in retaliation for the informant’s cooperation with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In the first attempt, Jones’ younger brother, Toby Jones of Chicago, fired several shots through the front door of the informant’s Oak Park apartment building, wounding an innocent bystander.
The second attempt came a week later when Kelsey Jones approaches the informant’s car and fired several shots, wounding the informant and another person. Both survived.
Jones and his brother were convicted, earlier this year, of conspiring with each other in an attempted murder, as well as gun and drug charges. Toby Jones was sentenced to 40 years in prison. His brother Kelsey has been sentenced to 35 years behind bars.
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