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Streator man pleads in robbery, gunfire case · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Streeter Man pleads in robbery gunfire case. Written by Tom Collins.
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  This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlet. A Streeter Man pleaded guilty Friday
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  to setting up a TWEE twenty four robbery and to
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  firing a gun when things went awry, and faces up
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  twenty years in prison at sentencing. Derek E. Dill Junior,
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  thirty five, was set for trial Monday in LaSalle County
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  Circuit Court on multiple felony charges led by armed habitual criminal,
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  a class EX felony. He was charged after a botched
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  robbery on November third, twenty twenty four, in streetor that
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  ended in gunfire. No one was hurt. Dill emerged Friday
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  from a closed door conference with his lawyer and entered
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  a blind plea to three felonies attempted armed robbery, aggravated
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  discharge of a firearm, and armed habitual criminal. In exchange
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  for his plea, sal County prosecutors agreed to recommend a
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  sentence of no more than twenty years. Dill will have
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  an opportunity to address Chief Judge H. Chris Ryan, Junior
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  at sentencing set for one pm July sixteenth. According to
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  open court Sate statements, Dyll and Brianna M. Stash lured
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  a man into Strader and then tried to rob him.
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  Dill fired several shots as the victims sped from the
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  would be hold up, according to open court statements, but
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  the shots did not strike anyone. Stash previously entered a
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  negotiated plea for eight years. She is scheduled for release
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  in May twenty twenty eight.