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Judge: no fast food breaks on home confinement · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Judge no fast food breaks on home confinement. Written by
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  Speaker 1: Tom Collins. This article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. If you're granted home
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  Speaker 1: confinement while a waiting trial, A judge ruled Monday, there's
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  Speaker 1: no going out for McDonald's. A Lasal man learned that
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  Speaker 1: lesson the hard way. On Monday, Isaiah Houston will spend
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  Speaker 1: fifteen days in Lasal County jail for violating his home
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  Speaker 1: confinement by making runs for fast food and for cigarettes. Houston, thirty,
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  Speaker 1: has been a waiting trial on a superclass ex felony
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  Speaker 1: drug charge nine forty years in prison no probation since
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  Speaker 1: last August. Then drug agents rated his residence and seized
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  Speaker 1: five ounces of purported cocaine. LaSalle County prosecutors were unhappy
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  Speaker 1: when a judge granted him home confinement with GPS monitoring.
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  Speaker 1: They were really annoyed when the GPS triggered multiple alarms.
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  Speaker 1: An analysis of the GPS monitoring showed trips to fetch
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  Speaker 1: cigarettes and junk food. Houston appeared Monday in LaSalle County
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  Speaker 1: Circuit Court for a sanctions hearing. Prosecutor Jason Good said
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  Speaker 1: punishment was warranted for the fast food runs and asked
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  Speaker 1: for thirty days in jail. Houston's lawyer, Carol Stream attorney
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  Speaker 1: Michelle McClellan argued that many of Houston's so called violations
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  Speaker 1: were for legitimate purposes. Chief Judge H. Chris Ryan Junior
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  Speaker 1: partially agreed insofar as he cut the state's jail request
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  Speaker 1: in half. The judge acknowledged, however, there were some brazen
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  Speaker 1: violations of home confinement, not for chicken, the judge said,