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- 0:05Speaker 1: Spring Valley man faces up to ten years for stolen
- 0:07pistol Written by Tom Collins. This article is being read
- 0:13by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. A
- 0:17Spring Valley man pleaded guilty Friday to possessing a stolen
- 0:20gun seized after he ran from a traffic stop, and
- 0:23faces up to ten years in prison at sentencing. On
- 0:26August thirteenth. Angel Ex Garabee, twenty five, appeared in LaSalle
- 0:30County Circuit Court and entered blind pleas to unlawful possession
- 0:34of a stolen firearm, a class two felony carrying three
- 0:37to seven years in prison, and possession of a weapon
- 0:40by afllon, a class three felony, carrying an extended sentence
- 0:44of two to ten years. Garabe was charged October sixteenth
- 0:48after state police attempted a traffic stop on a vehicle
- 0:51with no front license plate. Garabe sped from the traffic
- 0:55stop and breaked at an unspecified location before attempting to
- 0:58flee on foot. When police searched the getaway car and
- 1:01located a backpack inside was a glock pistol with an
- 1:05extended magazine. The weapon was found to have been stolen
- 1:09Garabe had a previous felony conviction for aggravated fleeing and eluding,
- 1:13and was prohibited from possessing a firearm, let alone a
- 1:16stolen one. There was no agreement or cap limiting how
- 1:20much time Garabe could get. He will have an opportunity
- 1:23to address Chief Judge H. Chris Ryan Junior at a
- 1:26sentencing hearing set for one pm Thursday, August thirteenth,