Plano man gets 8 years in prison for cocaine delivery

A Plano man has been sentenced to eight years in state prison for selling cocaine to undercover police officers, Kendall County State’s Attorney Eric Weis recently announced.

Kendall County Judge Timothy J. McCann sentenced Arturo Pulido, 52, of the 300 block of Prairie Street, Plano, to eight years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.

A Kendall County jury found Pulido guilty of multiple drug offenses last November, Weis said, and he has remained in custody since the jury trial.

According to Weis, the sentencing range for Pulido’s actions ranged from six to 30 years. The jury trial consisted of testimony mainly from members of the Kendall County Cooperative Police Assistance Team, who purchased cocaine from Pulido on three separate occasions.

Pulido was arrested in March 2015 after a search warrant was conducted at his residence, where an additional 50 grams of cocaine was found.

Pulido’s attorney, Domingo Vargas of Blue Island, argued that his client had been entrapped by the police into dealing cocaine.

Weis, who tried the case along with Assistant State’s Attorney Frank Gorup, said, “The jury saw through Pulido’s attempt at painting our officers as overzealous. Pulido delivered cocaine to an undercover police officer on three separate occasions and had a large amount of additional cocaine in his home. That is not something that an entrapped person would do, but it is something a drug dealer does all too often.”

Weis complimented the Kendall County Police Assistance Team on using their resources to target drug dealers operating in the Kendall County area.

“These officers go where the evidence takes them, and if they learn that an individual is a drug dealer, they are going to gather the evidence needed to bring the drug dealer to justice,” Weis said.