A suburban Island Lake, Illinois man who confessed to housing close to 50 cats in a U-Haul van is going to jail. Patryk Popek was sentenced yesterday in a McHenry County Court to 40 days behind bars. He was also sentenced to one year of conditional discharge after pleading guilty to one count of animal cruelty. Popek's co-defendant, Nicole Blotnicki, pleaded guilty to the same offense and received the same sentence. She has been released after she served her jail term in February. The couple housed dozens of cats in a Ford Transit U-Haul van for at least two months.