Heroin Homicide Defendant Sentenced By Judge Carlson

NEW LENOX, IL - New Lenox resident Mark Harmon has been inside the Will County Jail since April 3, 2015 facing felony drug-induced homicide charges for his role in the 2014 Christmas Eve heroin overdose death of Jeff Tediski. On Monday, Harmon, now 26, appeared in front of Will County Circuit Judge Dave Carlson along with his private criminal defense attorney, Thomas O'Connor. Harmon pleaded guilty to drug-induced homicide and unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. The fourth-floor judge went ahead and sentenced Harmon to six years at the Illinois Department of Corrections.

However, the two criminal sentences for the New Lenox Township resident will run at the same time. Harmon also gets credit for serving 1,264 days in the county jail while awaiting his trial date. Harmon will be required to serve his remaining sentence at 75 percent. In other words, he will likely have to serve a little more than one year in the Department of Correction's custody, followed by three years of parole, court officials indicated.

Harmon's co-defendant, Adam Pate, now 33, previously pleaded guilty, and Pate ended up with a prison sentence of six years and six months. Pate remains locked away from society inside the Illinois Department of Corrections, at the southern Illinois prison in Pinckneyville. Pate is slated to be paroled in October 2020.

Twice this year, Mark Harmon was given a brief furlough by the Will County Court in order to attend the funerals of his younger brothers. His 20-year-old brother Joey Harmon died on Feb. 2 in New Lenox Township from an overdose involving Fentanyl intoxication. On May 19, his brother, 19-year-old Daniel "Danny" Harmon, also of New Lenox, was found dead by Will County Sheriff's Deputies who were called to the Harmon home in the 200 block of South Anderson Road in New Lenox Township.

Mugshots of Mark Harmon via Will County Sheriff