57-year-old Clyde Charles Jr. was sentenced this week to 13 years in the Department of Corrections for Class X felony of Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine.
Knox County State’s Attorney Jeremy Karlin says in a release that, quote, “the community is safer when we send a defendant like Charles to prison for a lengthy sentence.
The release says that the conviction was a result of a joint operation between the Knox County Sheriff’s and Galesburg Police departments, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigations and other area law enforcement agencies.
A search warrant was executed at a McClure Street residence belonging to a Daniel Villarreal where over 11 pounds of methamphetamine was found.
Charles was one of the individuals leaving the residence at the time the search warrant was executed and 119 grams of the drug was found on him.
Karlin says that every day the criminal justice system sees two types of defendants, “those people who need our help to overcome poverty, mental illness or addiction and those people from whom the community needs protection. This defendant is the latter type of individual.”
He will be required to serve at least 50 percent of the sentence before being on supervised release.