State politics were at the center of debate during Thursday’s Macon County Board meeting, which saw Republicans harness their majority power in opposition to recent action from Illinois Democrats.
Joseph Luckee Williams, facing charges he tried to murder a Decatur cop with a machine gun, failed in a bid Thursday to have key evidence against him excluded.
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DECATUR â Casey T. Wiley, the Mount Zion man convicted of buying ammunition while having just got out on parole for firearms offenses, was sent to prison for 14 years on Thursday.
The sentence was the maximum Judge Jason M. Bohm could impose at the Macon County Circuit Court sentencing hearing. Wiley had been convicted in a March jury trial of two counts of being a felon in possession of ammunition.
The background of how Wiley, 33, came to be a felon is complex, and also full of weapons offenses.
An earlier trial in December of 2019 found him guilty on three charges involving the aggravated unlawful use of a shotgun, rifle and handgun.
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