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Suspect in Streator drug-theft conspiracy apprehended · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Suspect in Streeter drug theft conspiracy apprehended. 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 Everlett. Authorities have apprehended the fourth and
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  final suspect in a drug and theft ring based out
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  of Streeter. Robert L. Phillips, fifty, was taken into custody
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  June tenth by the Illinois Department of Corrections. He had
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  been on parole since Spring twenty twenty three after serving
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  part of a thirty five year sentence for a felony
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  cocaine charge. Phillips will now be remanded to LaSalle County
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  scheduled court date July eighth to face multiple charges led
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  by calculated criminal drug conspiracy, a Class EX felony carrying
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  up to thirty years. Phillips and three other men were
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  charged shortly before Thanksgiving twenty twenty four, after straight Or
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  Police announced a series of search warrants resulting in the
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  seizure of multiple firearms, many stolen plus drugs, and tens
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  of thousands worth of stolen property. So far, in this
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  ongoing investigation into the manufacture and sale of controlled substances
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  as well as organized shoplifting burglaries affecting not only Straeter,
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  but LaSalle, Livingston, Marshall and Grundy Counties. Streeter Police said
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  then while Phillips was on the lamb, there was little
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  movement in most of the remaining cases. Keith R. Gullens
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  and Darryl D. Gullins have pending pre trial motions to
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  be resolved before they stand trial for the conspiracy charge
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  and other felonies, most for drug deals. One case may
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  be closer to resolution. David L. Miller, thirty six, awaits
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  sentencing August fifth on drug charges pending before he was
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  charged in the Streeter area State