Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul obtained a guilty plea and prison sentence for a Grundy County man, 28-year-old Scott Robbins, in a drug-induced homicide case involving the death of 25-year-old Keegan Kenney of Goose Lake, Illinois. Robbins was sentenced to seven years in prison by Grundy County Circuit Court Judge Scott Belt after pleading guilty to one count of drug-induced homicide, a Class X felony, according to the Illinois Attorney General.
According to the Attorney General's office, Robbins delivered bags of narcotics containing fentanyl to the home of Kenney, his former girlfriend, on March 25, 2020. She had just returned from a rehabilitation center where she was treated for heroin addiction, yet tragically lost her life to an overdose the very next day by fentanyl and diphenhydramine intoxication.
The Grundy County Sheriff's Department led the investigation, the Illinois State Police Forensic Crime Lab provided assistance, and the office of Attorney General Raoul co-prosecuted the case with Grundy County State's Attorney Russ Baker. In the words of Deputy Chief Paul Clampitt, the Grundy County Sheriff Department Deputy Chief, such cooperation led to a resolution, albeit one that will not bring back Kenney but might provide some measure of closure for her family.
State's Attorney Russ Baker underscored the perfidious nature of Robbins' action, stating that "Scott Robbins, operating as a drug dealer, brokered access of heroin/fentanyl to Keegan, someone he supposedly cared about, hours after she got out of rehab and was locked down at her parents' house." By delivering the addictive substance to Kenney, he tragically facilitated her untimely death for financial gain.
