Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Ronez William Young, 19, Shaundrell Brown, 19 and Adrian Maurice Dorsey, 20 were arrested when officers found Heroin and a loaded gun with the serial number scratched off.


Three men are being held at the county jail following their arrests during a traffic stop over the weekend.
Ronez William Young, 19, who listed an address in the 1200 block of West Eureka Street, Urbana, was charged on Monday with driving under the influence of drugs or an intoxicating compound and obstructing justice.
He is being held at the Champaign County Jail on $50,000 bond and is due back in court on Tuesday.
Shaundrell Brown, 19, who listed an address in the 1600 block of West White Street, Champaign, was charged on Monday with unlawful possession of a weapon, defacing the identification marks on a firearm, possessing a controlled substance and obstructing justice.
He is being held at the Champaign County Jail on $25,000 bond and is due back in court on April 1.
Adrian Maurice Dorsey, 20, who listed an address in the 1100 block of Austin Drive, Urbana, was charged on Monday with being a felon possession or using a firearm, defacing the identification marks of a firearm and possessing a controlled substance.
He is being held at the Champaign County Jail on $7,500 bond and is due back in court on Feb. 12.
According to an Urbana police report, an officer pulled over a vehicle containing Young, Brown, Dorsey and three other people at 11:15 p.m. Saturday for having an expired license plate.
When police began to question the driver and passengers, some of them allegedly lied about their identities, according to the report.
When officers searched the vehicle, they found 2.5 grams (0.088 ounces) of suspected heroin, a loaded gun and some cash in the back seat and made the arrests.

Kenyatta Washington, 19, of the 1300 block of Hanover Court, Champaign, Stole four thousand dollars from the cash drawer at Home Depot in Champaign.


A former employee of a Champaign store was ordered Tuesday to repay $4,000 she stole.
Kenyatta Washington, 19, of the 1300 block of Hanover Court, Champaign, pleaded guilty Tuesday before Champaign County Judge Tom Difanis to a single count of felony theft. She admitted that between late May and July 6, 2013, while employed as a cashier for Home Depot, 320 Bloomington Road, she stole cash from her cash drawer.
Assistant State's Attorney Troy Lozar said Washington, who had no prior convictions, was recorded on videotape stealing on several occasions.
She was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to repay the $4,000.
In exchange for her plea, another felony case accusing her of using a forged credit or debit card in December was dismissed.

Linda Johnson of 22 North State, Champaign, gets two years for theft for stealing from a resident at Eden Supportive Living Center


A Champaign woman who admitted stealing from a fellow resident of the Eden Supportive Living Center has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Linda Johnson, 60, who last lived at the center at 222 N. State St., C, pleaded guilty to theft over $500 for stealing from a fellow resident in December. In addition to her prison sentence, she was ordered to repay him $1,017.
Assistant State's Attorney Troy Lozar said the victim is handicapped and in a wheelchair. She was pushing him at the Savoy Wal-Mart on Dec. 17 when she got his debit card. She then used it at several stores, buying merchandise for herself.
Lozar said Johnson had prior convictions for credit card fraud, forgery, obstructing justice and domestic battery.


Two arrested for armed robbery that took place near the Engineering Quad on Campus.


Two men were arraigned Monday afternoon on charges of armed robbery, following their arrest on Sunday evening that also produced two unrelated arrest
s near Carle Foundation Hospital.
According to State’s Attorney Julia Rietz, Derrick Cox, 20, of Urbana, and Tavarus Murphy, 17, of Melrose Park, were formally charged Monday with two counts of armed robbery, one for each of two victims in incidents that took place on Sunday evening.
At 6:30 p.m. Sunday, a man walking in the 600 block of East White Street, Champaign, near the Engineering Quad, was approached by two men. They pushed him against a wall and one showed a firearm and demanded his wallet and phone. They then ran off.
Shortly after that, a man and woman walking into the courtyard of an apartment building, also in the 600 block of East White Street, were robbed at gunpoint of a backpack. The man called police and followed the two until they got into a Lincoln Town Car.
University of Illinois and Champaign police stopped the car in the 600 block of West University Avenue, Urbana, near Carle. Rietz said a loaded gun and items taken in the robberies were found in the car. Cox and Murphy were arrested. Although Murphy is 17, he is charged as an adult as required by state law on armed robbery, Rietz said.
Bond for both men was set at $250,000. They are both due back in court on April 1.
During the traffic stop, a sport utility vehicle that wasn’t involved in the stop hit the side mirror of a pickup truck, then drove past a Champaign police officer and hit him with the passenger side mirror, spinning him out of the way. The officer was treated for minor injuries and then immediately returned to duty.
Urbana police arrested the driver of the sport utility vehicle, Jeffrey J. Taylor, 31, of Urbana, for aggravated driving under the influence.
According to an Urbana police report, Taylor appeared to be intoxicated.
A test conducted at the county jail indicated that Taylor had a blood alcohol content of 0.218, according to the report. In Illinois, a person is presumed to be intoxicated with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 or above.
Taylor is due in court on March 14.
A passenger in Taylor’s vehicle, Charles Meeks, 29, who listed an address in the 600 block of East Vine Street, Champaign, was arrested by police for manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance.
Meeks is being held at the county jail on $26,000 bond and is due back in court on April 1.