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Fugitive picked up for crash that injured Earlville cop · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Fugitive picked up for crash that injured Earlville cop. Written
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  Speaker 1: by Tom Collins. This article is being read by an
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  Speaker 1: automated voice brought to you by Everlet. Jaquiah Roy sped
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  Speaker 1: from a Mendota traffic stop. An Earlville police officer broke
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  Speaker 1: his neck in the ensuing crash. Roy was put on
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  Speaker 1: felony probation, which she violated, and then she skipped her
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  Speaker 1: sentencing hearing near Christmas twenty twenty four. Now Roy is
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  Speaker 1: back in LaSalle County jail and she's going to stay
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  Speaker 1: there until a judge sentences her for the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: one crash that critically injured then Earlville officer Jesus Alonzo.
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  Speaker 1: She faces up to three years in prison for aggravated
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  Speaker 1: fleeing and eluding. Roy twenty nine, of Chicago, appeared Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: in LaSalle County Circuit Court, where she was remanded after
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  Speaker 1: twenty months on the lamb. LaSalle County prosecutors asked that
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  Speaker 1: Roy be denied any form of release. Chief Judge H.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Ryan Junior agreed. The judge cited the facts. Roy
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  Speaker 1: was convicted of aggravated fleeing and eluding, then admitted to
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  Speaker 1: violating her probation and then was a no show at sentencing,
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  Speaker 1: making her a proven flight risk. Ryan set a sentencing
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  Speaker 1: hearing for one p m. Friday, October ninth. Though attorneys
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  Speaker 1: were ready to go at YULETI twenty four, Ryan said
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  Speaker 1: the parties in the case need time to update Roy's
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  Speaker 1: personal history and give him guidance at sentencing. Roy's sentencing
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  Speaker 1: in October will close out a case that had left
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  Speaker 1: police and prosecutors deeply frustrated since the police pursuit and
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  Speaker 1: crash in April twenty twenty one. Out of the gate.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities were unhappy that Roy's only applicable charge was aggravated
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  Speaker 1: fleeing and eluding, among the lowest level felonies, and that
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  Speaker 1: a more serious charge wasn't available given the risk to
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  Speaker 1: the public, as well as the injuries to Alonzo. Roy
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  Speaker 1: was clocked more than one hundred miles per hour she
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  Speaker 1: sped through a residential area of Mendota where the posted
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  Speaker 1: limit is forty five miles per hour. Alonzo gave chase,
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  Speaker 1: but then crashed his cruiser on US thirty four near
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  Speaker 1: the Meriden Township building, fracturing two vertebrae in his neck.
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  Speaker 1: He has not returned to the Earlville Police Department. Though
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  Speaker 1: Roy later pleaded guilty, she and her lawyer persuaded her
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  Speaker 1: judge to give her probation. She couldn't complete her supervised release. However,
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  Speaker 1: she pepper sprayed a woman in Monroe County, Indiana, and,
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  Speaker 1: after returning to LaSalle County, entered a blind admission to
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  Speaker 1: violating her probation. A local lawmaker tried to amend the
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  Speaker 1: aggravated fleeing statute to elevate the sentencing range when someone
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  Speaker 1: is injured in a high speed police pursuit. A few
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  Speaker 1: weeks after Roy skipped her Christmas twenty twenty four sentencing,
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  Speaker 1: State Senator Sue Resin R. Morris introduced a bill that
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  Speaker 1: would have introduced escalator clauses when an injury occurs. Under
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  Speaker 1: Resin's proposal, Roy might have faced up to fifteen years
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  Speaker 1: for Alonzo's debilitating injury. The legislation installed during the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five session. However,