ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – A Marshalltown, Iowa, man, Michael James Grommet, 37, was sentenced on March 9, 2022, to 360 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by
A Rock Island man was sentenced to 72 months and three years of supervised release, for a credit union robbery and interstate transportation of stolen money. WGIL previously reported that 34-year-old Roman T. Lloyd of Rock Island was arrested on the Fourth of July in 2018 for the robbery of the Alpha Pharmacy in May of that year. Lloyd had also been charged for the robbery of a Moline credit union in 2019. Following the robbery, Lloyd fled from police, driving at speeds approaching 100 miles an hour on both highways and residential streets. Police had to use "stop sticks" on five occasions before they were ultimately successful on their sixth attempt. While Lloyd's tires were deflated, law enforcement used a "PIT maneuver" to force the vehicle into a ditch before he was apprehended. Based on this evidence, Chief U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow found that an upward variance from the sentencing guidelines was appropriate because Lloyd had shown a reckless disrega
A Davenport man was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison and 15 years of supervised release this week for traveling to Illinois to engage in illicit sexual activity and attempting to entice two underage girls to engage in sexual activity. Details of the case were not released but according to court documents, in November of 2020, 31-year-old Douglas Speer of Davenport arranged to pay for sex with individuals he believed to be two girls, ages 15 and 11. After traveling from Iowa to Illinois to meet with the intended victims, Speer was arrested by federal agents and local law enforcement officers. At Speer's sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow stated that the applicable penalties, including statutory minimums, were severe but necessary given that such law serves to protect the most vulnerable within the community from "predators" like Speer. According to the Department of Justice, Darrow further commented on the need for a sentence such as this to deter
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