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Streator drug suspect gets 7 years in agreed sentencing · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Streeter drug suspect at seven years in agreed sentencing written
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  by Tom Collins. This article is being read by an
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  automated voice brought to you by Everlett. A Streeter man
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  who had pleaded guilty to a drug charge and to
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  jumping out of a squad car was sentenced Wednesday to
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  seven years in prison. Derek Hornick, forty seven, appeared Wednesday
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  in LaSalle County Circuit Court and entered a global resolution
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  to multiple felony and misdemeanor charges. He had previously entered
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  a blind plea to unlawful delivery of a controlled substance,
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  a Class X felony carrying six to thirty years in
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  prison with no possibility of probation. He had also pleaded
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  guilty to a misdemeanor escape charge. Wednesday, however, Hornick's lawyer
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  and a LaSalle County prosecutor announced an agreed sentence of
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  seven years, which should cut his actual prison time to
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  about three years. He also pleaded guilty to a weapons
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  offense with a concurrent seven year sentence. Hornick declined opportunities
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  to make a statement in allocution. His primary legal troubles
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  began when police seized at least fifteen grams of cocaine.
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  On August twenty seventh, he was granted pre trial release
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  and later placed on GPS monitoring. After a pair of
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  pre trial violations in October and November, a warrant was
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  issued for his arrest. Hornick was picked up November ninth
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  and then incurred the escape charge for jumping out of
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  a moving squad car. Ottawa police ordered him to stop
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  and then taste him.