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  Suspect detained in straighter armed robbery Written by Tom Collins This
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  Everlet. There was no hold up at a street or business. The
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  armed robbery, reported Tuesday was outside a residence and looks like a
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  drug deal gone bad. Nevertheless, one suspect of two will be detained.
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  Joshua T. Hayes, eighteen, appeared Thursday in Salle County Circuit Court and
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  was presented with one count of armed robbery, a Class X felony
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  carrying six to thirty years with no possibility of probation. Hayes was
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  granted the services of public defender Ryan Hamer, who promptly tried to
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  get Hayes released from LaSalle County jail with assorted conditions. Hamer portrayed
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  the victim as a drug dealer and said the evidence linking Hayes
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  to the incident and to the two confiscated handguns was shaky at
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  best. But prosecutors allege that the victim had a gun put to
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  his head. The victim's description of the weapon also was a match
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  for one of the two guns seized during a subsequent search of
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  Hayes apartment building. This is an incident outside his Hayes residence, prosecutor
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  Kelly Porter argued, so I don't think putting him on home confinement
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  mitigates the threat he poses. Hayes's criminal record didn't help. At the
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  time of arrest he was on conditional discharge for a battery proof,
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  Porter argued, that he can't comply with terms of release, and his
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  juvenile record included a firearms offense for which he did time. Chief
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  Judge H. Chris Ryan Jr. Agreed that Hayes posed a threat to
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  the public and there were no conditions of release to sufficiently protect
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  the public. Hayes will be back in court October 2nd for arraignment.
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  Meanwhile, police are still searching for a second suspect. Authorities have disclosed
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  the armed robbery took place at 1226 p.m. Tuesday in the 500
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  block of West Freck Street. There, prosecutors say, a man in a
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  vehicle was robbed of cash and cannabis by two males, one of
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  whom pressed a gun to the victim's head. Based on Porter's open
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  court characterization of the events, it was the at-large suspect who pressed
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  the firearm to the victim's head. But Porter said Hayes was an
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  active participant in the holdup and multiple witnesses placed him at the
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  scene.