Case DIH-2918
Rufus L. McGee
Led a drug ring operating as "Mello" in the northwest Chicago suburbs; its heroin laced with fentanyl killed a 22-year-old woman in Algonquin, Illinois, on May 28, 2019, and its drugs, passed on by a middleman, killed a 48-year-old Harvard man on March 7, 2019.
- Court
- State, McHenry County
- State
- Illinois
- Year of death
- 2019
- Year sentenced
- 2025
- Drugs
- Heroin; fentanyl
- Conduct
- Upstream supplier
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Drug-induced homicide; delivery of 1-15 grams of fentanyl (pleas, two cases)
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 19 years in prison (combined, both cases)
- Found through
- State prosecutor and news search, October 2026
This case was brought under Illinois law. For what that law says, see Illinois in the state law guide.
Sources
- lakemchenryscanner.com19 years in prison for drug ring leader in separate fatal overdoses of man woman in mchenry county
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