Suburban Drug Dealers Sentenced to 75 Years for Attempted Murder of an Undercover Agent

Two brothers running simultaneous drug dealing businesses were sentenced Monday to a combined 75 years in prison for attempting to murder an undercover federal informant in 2014.

Kelsey Jones, 40, dealt crack cocaine and heroin on Chicago’s West Side and in the western suburbs, according to a release from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He was sentenced to 35 years in jail after being found guilty of conspiring with his younger brother Toby, 39, to kill an agent who had set up a drug bust. Toby was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

They attempted to murder the undercover agent twice, but no one was killed.

Toby Jones was also dealing cocaine and heroin when an undercover ATF agent began buying drugs from him in late 2013. It was when Toby set up a meeting with the agent to buy a gun and sent his associate Wesley Fields to make the purchase that the brothers were initially busted. The meeting took place March 26, 2014.

For a week, Toby searched for the federal informant with the intention of killing them. The effort culminated in a series of shootings in Oak Park, according to the FTA.

In the first attempt of murder, Toby fired several shots through the door of an apartment in the agent’s building in Oak Park. The informant wasn’t touched, but an innocent bystander was hurt.

In the second attempt, Kelsey tracked down the agent’s car outside of their apartment building and fired shots at the car while the informant and someone else were inside. Both victims were shot and injured, but not killed.

Fields pleaded guilty earlier this year to participating in a drug conspiracy and carrying a gun. He was sentenced to 9 years and 9 months in prison.

The Oak Park Police Department and George Lauder, an acting special agent in charge of the Chicago field for ATF assisted in investigating the case. U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois delivered Kelsey Jones’ sentencing Monday, Nov. 14.

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