Hinsdale Police Department (Pioneer Press / Chicago Tribune)

       A 30-year-old Burr Ridge man was sentenced to 12 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to supplying narcotics to a 23-year-old Hinsdale woman who died from a drug overdose in 2019.

       According to a news release, Wasim Rashan, of the 800 block of Lakeview Lane, Burr Ridge, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of drug induced homicide and a count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Judge Daniel Guerin sentenced Rashan to a 10-year sentence for the homicide plea, to be served at 75% and a consecutive two-year term to be served at 50% for the possession with intent to deliver charge.

       Rashan has been in custody since a judge set his bond at $1 million on May 2, 2019, according to the release from DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin.

       Hinsdale police were called on Jan. 14, 2019 to a report of an unresponsive person at her home, the news release said. Upon arrival, authorities found the victim deceased in the residence, the apparent victim of a drug overdose. Authorities recovered baggies in the victim’s bedroom containing a substance, later determined to be a heroin/fentanyl mixture, the release said.

       An investigation conducted by the DuPage Metropolitan Enforcement Group and the Hinsdale Police Department led to Rashan. The following day, a search warrant was executed at Rashan’s home during which authorities found baggies that matched those found at the victim’s home, a scale with drug residue on it as well as a list of names and phone numbers that included the victim’s name and number, the release said. The investigation also revealed that on the day of her death, the victim died from a drug overdose after ingesting a heroin/fentanyl mixture supplied to her by Rashan.

       “In 2020, DuPage County suffered 112 opioid overdose deaths, a 17% increase from the year before” Berlin said. “2020 also marked the first year that we grieved more than one hundred deaths due to opioid overdose. To reduce this number of senseless deaths to the only acceptable number, which is zero, we must get these drugs off the streets. One way to do this is to hold those who bring these drugs to our communities accountable.”

       “Perhaps knowing that the man responsible for supplying that fatal dose will be held accountable will provide some measure of justice to the victim’s family and friends,” Berlin said.

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