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Two charged with felonies for misusing police lights · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Two charge with felonies for misusing police lights. Written by
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  Speaker 1: Tom Collins. This article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. Here's a tip for
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  Speaker 1: all you would be police impersonators. If you conduct a
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  Speaker 1: fake traffic stop, then don't post it on social media.
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  Speaker 1: A pair of LaSalle County men faced charges after a
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  Speaker 1: July twenty first pullover conducted without authority and was uploaded
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  Speaker 1: to Snapchat. Evan T. Hensley, nineteen, of Rural Earlville and
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  Speaker 1: Austin D. Michael, twenty of Sandwich were both indicted Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: in LaSalle County Circuit Court on two counts of unlawful
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  Speaker 1: use of oscillating lights, a class to felony carrying three
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  Speaker 1: to seven years. Michael is out of custody. He was
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  Speaker 1: granted pre trial release and will next appear August thirteenth.
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  Speaker 1: Hensley wasn't as fortunate. Hensley had been out of custody
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  Speaker 1: since Christmas, when he pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and
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  Speaker 1: was placed on probation. Following the fake traffic stop charges,
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  Speaker 1: LaSalle County prosecutors asked that Hensley be kept in jail
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  Speaker 1: in a pleading Prosecutors allege a motorist driving a Chevrolet
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  Speaker 1: Silverado pulled over for what he thought was a police
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  Speaker 1: vehicle early July twenty first, after red and blue oscillating
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  Speaker 1: lights were activated behind him. The individual who approached the
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  Speaker 1: Silverado told the driver he was under arrest, but the
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  Speaker 1: motorists saw and recognized Hensley inside the vehicle that pulled
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  Speaker 1: him over. According to the pleading, at that point, the
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  Speaker 1: motorists knew it was a ploy and hit the gas.
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  Speaker 1: Police found the taped incident uploaded to Snapchat. When questioned,
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  Speaker 1: prosecutor said Hensley avoided accountability and acted like he did
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  Speaker 1: not know why the police would be talking to him.
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  Speaker 1: Hensley later admitted to purchasing and activating an oscillating light.