Drug dealer sentenced to eight years in Boone County

BOONE COUNTY – Boone County State’s Attorney Michelle Courier announced on Friday, March 11 that Derrick Jones, 26, of Rockford, pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for drug delivery charges.
Jones made a delivery of a substance containing less than a gram of heroin to a confidential informant on April 17, 2015, and again on April 29, 2015, within 1,000 feet of the First Baptist Church in Belvidere.