Gehovani Gomez charged with drug-induced homicide of Crystal Villegas in Kane County

Gehovani Gomez is being held on a $500,000 bail, prosecutors said.

By David Struett

A Kane County judge sentenced Jordi Nieto to more than a decade in prison for attempted murder and other charges. — Gehovani Gomez is charged in a Sept. 6, 2018, overdose death in Kane County.

A 22-year-old alleged heroin dealer already in custody in Cook County on unrelated charges has been charged in Kane County in the overdose death of a 30-year-old woman.

Gehovani Gomez, of Elgin, is charged with a felony count of drug-induced homicide in the Sept. 6, 2018, death of Crystal Villegas of West Dundee, according to the Kane County state’s attorney’s office.

Earlier that day, Villegas used heroin she allegedly bought from Gomez, overdosed and then died, prosecutors said. An autopsy found she died of heroin and fentanyl intoxication.

A Kane County judge ordered Gomez held on a $500,000 bail, prosecutors said.

Gomez has been in custody since September 2018 in Cook County on unrelated armed robbery charges, according to court records.

His first court date in Kane County has not been determined, prosecutors said.

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