Pair charged with drugs and gun crimes after traffic stop

Twenty-six-year-old New Memphis in Clinton County, Illinois resident Leross Cooks and 26-year-old Rantoul in Champaign County local James Wesley Guy were arrested by Urbana police on November 18 after a traffic violation stop resulted in more serious findings, The News-Gazette reported. Urbana police Sergeant Dan Morgan said a police officer pulled the suspects’ car over in the 1200...

Criminal Defense

November 17th, 2014

Champaign man charged with drug crimes

Twenty-nine-year-old Champaign resident Harvey Blakely was charged in the Champaign County Circuit Court with unlawful possession with intent to deliver heroin and cocaine, both of which are Class 1 felonies, after being arrested on Saturday, October 25 and assigned a $500,000 bond, The News-Gazette reported. Blakely was arrested after a shooting occurred outside the house where...

Criminal Defense

October 17th, 2014

Feds bust extensive drug trafficking network

The United States Attorney’s Office in Chicago, Illinois said in a statement that 22 suspects of a major drug trafficking network stretching from Mexico to six U.S. states had been taken under police custody, with 14 of them arrested in Chicago, California, Iowa, and Pennsylvania this week, an Associated Press article reported. The suspects were...

DUI Defense

October 9th, 2014

Amanda Bynes charged with DUI in Los Angeles

Hollywood actress Amanda Bynes, 28, was taken into police custody on the early morning of Sunday, September 28 on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs, the California Highway Patrol said in a statement released last Monday, September 29. According to the statement, a patrol officer stopped Bynes in the middle of an intersection...

Criminal Defense

September 26th, 2014

Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in death of Reeva Steenkamp

Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa, after 44 days of court proceedings, finally handed out her verdict regarding the four charges filed against 27-year-old South African Olympian marathon runner Oscar Pistorius, the Daily Beast reported on September 12. The charges included the murder of his model girlfriend, 31-year-old Reeva Steenkamp, two counts of reckless mishandling of a firearm...

Criminal Defense

September 4th, 2014

Woman charged with DUI denied bail for violating terms of probation

Fifty-nine-year-old Illinois resident Leslie Thurow has been ordered to be held without bail for violating terms of her probation. The probation came from Thurow pleading guilty to an aggravated DUI charge just days prior. According to Cook County records, Thurow struck an unidentified state trooper as she was driving along Interstate 294 in the northbound lanes of the Tri-State Tollway...

Criminal Defense

August 20th, 2014

Champaign man charged with assault against his father

The Champaign News Gazette reported that 20-year-old Champaign, Illinois resident Troy Humphrey was arrested and charged with felony aggravated battery on Monday, August 11 after allegedly assaulting an elderly man. According to preliminary investigations made by the police detectives assigned to the case, Humphrey and his 68-year-old father started arguing in their home over who should be...

Sex Crimes Defense

August 10th, 2014

Case of sexual assault in an adult bookstore to be tried soon

Thirty-six-year-old Champaign resident Paul Zindar has been sued by a female employee of an adult book store, her employer, and the company’s insurance provider due to allegations that Zindar sexually assaulted the woman in question, the Paxton Record reported on August 1. According to the civil complaint against Zindars, LM Insurance Corp. paid $138,867 in...

Criminal Defense

August 1st, 2014

Attempted armed robbery suspect still loose

The Division of Public Safety is calling the attention of the public regarding an attempted robbery that took place in the 50th block of East John Street in Champaign, Illinois at around 3 a.m., The Daily Illini reported on July 18. According to the public safety advisory, the victim was accosted by a man armed...

Criminal Defense

July 25th, 2014

Urbana man sentenced to 42 months for a car accident that killed a student

Fifty-nine-year-old Urbana resident Willie Craft, Sr., was sentenced to 42 months in prison by Judge Richard Klaus in a Champaign County courtroom for a car accident that killed a student pedestrian in last fall, The News-Gazette reported on July 9. Craft pleaded guilty in early January to reckless homicide for causing the death of 20-year-old University of Illinois agricultural business student Mimi Liu...

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