DECATUR â A Decatur man who made âfurtive movementsâ when he was stopped at a police roadside safety check Saturday night went on to arouse suspicions even more when he was asked to get out of his vehicle, a sworn affidavit said.
â.So he got out of the car and stayed partially bent over,â said State Police Trooper Ronald Tisdale who was manning the check area at the intersection of U.S. 51 and King Street. âBased on my training and experience, this is consistent with someone attempting to hide contraband in and around their crotch and waist.â
The contraband turned out to be a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine. Tisdale said the gun was loaded with a round in the chamber.
DECATUR â A Chicago man is accused of defying an order of protection when he dragged his sleeping Decatur girlfriend out of bed and hauled her around the room by her hands and legs in a frantic search for her wallet because he wanted money, police said.
A sworn affidavit from Decatur police said the 25-year-old man caused cuts and abrasion injuries to the woman as he dragged her along in his wake, hunting for cash in the bedroom of her West Macon Street apartment.
But Officer Cody Rose said she never told him where it was and he never found it during the ordeal, which happened around 8:30 a.m. April 18.
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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DECATUR â Corrections staff at the Macon County Jail said theyâve had to deal with a recent spike on COVID-19 infections, but expressed relief that no prisoners became seriously ill.
The jail, which divides inmates up among 27 different housing units, said that 19 out of 22 people in one unit had caught the virus.
âWe quarantined them for 14 days and they just came off quarantine Saturday,â said Sgt. Scott Flannery, the assistant jail superintendent.
âAnd we have zero cases currently.â
Flannery said one of the infected inmates had complained of feeling sick but no one had needed treatment in the jailâs medical isolation units.