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Wednesday
DOMESTIC BATTERY/RESTRAINT CASE: Lance A. Larsen, 31, of Dixon; charged with unlawful restraint and domestic battery, a misdemeanor. Police say Larsen used duct tape Wednesday to restrain a 7-year-old boy, and allowed a second boy to kick the 7-year-old while he was on the ground.
On the docket: Preliminary hearing.
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DRUG CASE: Juan P. Amezola, 33, of Dixon; charged with delivery of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, and again within 1,000 feet of a church, and delivery of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine. Police say Amezola sold roughly $5,600 worth of cocaine to an informant in 2009.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
ARMED ROBBERY CASE: James D. Bopes, 36, of Rock Falls; charged with armed robbery, aggravated battery of an officer, aggravated assault of an officer, and misdemeanor resisting an officer and unlawful use of weapons. Lisa M. Montanez, 33, also of Rock Falls, is charged with armed robbery and resisting an office. Police say Bopes, armed with a medieval style sword, and Montanez threatened a couple at a Rock Falls hotel on Nov. 19 and took their money.
On the docket: Pretrial conferences.
RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY CASE: Aaron “A.J.” Buser, 35, of Rock Falls; charged with residential burglary. Police say Buser went into a Rock Falls house on Dec. 27 and stole Vicodin.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY CASE: Darnell A. Clark, 24, of Chicago; charged with residential burglary and obstructing justice. Police say Clark tried to break into a house in the Indian Ridge subdivision in Sterling on April 13.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
BATTERY TO A CHILD CASE: Marcus J. Dewey, 20, of Franklin Grove; charged with aggravated battery to a child. Police say Dewey severely injured a child younger than 13 on Oct. 16.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
THEFT CASE: James F. Driscoll, 52, of Fulton; charged with aggravated unlawful possession of stolen vehicles; six counts of possession of a vehicle without a V.I.N.; nine counts of possession of a stolen vehicle; and five counts of theft. Police say they found hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stolen farm equipment at his Fulton property on March 25.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
ATTEMPTED MURDER CASE: Clarence O. Hopkins, 28, of Chicago; charged with attempted murder, armed violence, aggravated discharge of a firearm, and possession of a firearm by a felon. Police say Hopkins shot an acquaintance in thighs around 12:20 a.m. July 1 in an altercation on East Fifth Street and Seventh Avenue in Sterling.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
CHILD ABUSE CASE: Keaton R. Johnson, 21, of Sterling; charged with aggravated battery of a child and aggravated domestic battery. Police say Johnson knocked a boy younger than 13 to the ground on Nov. 20, and shook him by the shoulders, causing bleeding on the brain.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
MURDER CASE: Patti J. Mock, 63, of Rock Falls; charged with five counts of first-degree murder. According to investigators, Mock caused “abusive head trauma” to 8-month-old Xavier Delgado on Sept. 24, 2009, by shaking him and causing his head to “impact upon an object.” The baby died 5 days later.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
RECKLESS HOMICIDE/DUI CASE: Chad E. Morse, 40, of Rock Falls; charged with two counts each of aggravated DUI and misdemeanor DUI alcohol, and three counts of reckless homicide. Police say Morse killed a 33-year-old pedestrian in a drunken driving accident on Nov. 26.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
HOME INVASION/TRESPASS CASES: Zachary M. Kinison and Alec T. Galindo, both 18, of Sterling; charged with home invasion, criminal trespass to a residence, and mob action; Shawn E. Perales, 20, of Sterling; charged with criminal trespass to a residence; Alexis M. Velazquez, 19, of Rock Falls; charged with armed robbery, residential burglary, and criminal trespass to a residence; her cousin, Davia B. Velazquez, 19, of Sterling; charged with criminal trespass to a residence. Police say they pushed their way into a Sterling teen’s apartment on Dec. 20, assaulted him and took his wallet and other items.
On the docket: Pretrial conferences.
DUI/RECKLESS DRIVING CASE: Roberto L. Reyna, 38, of Rock Falls; charged with leaving the scene of an injury accident, aggravated reckless driving and misdemeanor DUI. Police say Reyna, who was drinking at a party earlier, was backing out of a driveway April 30 and hit two pedestrians, a tree, a mailbox, and a landscaping boulder.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
HOME INVASION/BATTERY CASE: Stormee L. Sanders, 24, Jesse R. Westmoreland, 18, and Brandon L. Martin, 17, all of Sterling; each are charged with home invasion and battery. Police say that on Jan. 22, they went into a Sterling apartment and beat up three teenagers.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
HARBORING A RUNAWAY CASE: Eric L. Smith, 45, of Rock Falls; charged with harboring a runaway, a misdemeanor. In December 2009, Smith allowed his former girlfriend’s runaway 13-year-old daughter leave the state with him without her mother’s permission, police say.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
CHILD PORN CASE: Sergio A. Sotelo, 53, of Rock Falls; charged with five counts of aggravated child pornography. Police say they found child pornography on Sotelo’s laptop and in his home on June 17.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CASE: Lawrence C. Verdick Jr., 57, of Sterling; charged with four counts of aggravated child pornography. Police say a search of his home computer, which was seized in April, turned up many sexually explicit images of children younger than 12.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
SHOOTING CASE: Jeremy L. Williams, Antonio M. Martinez, both 19 of Rochelle; each charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm. Police say that on Nov. 6, the three men shot up a house at 1207 Second Ave. in Sterling after they were asked to leave a party at that house.
On the docket: Pretrial conference for both.
SHOOTING CASE: John J. Smith, 18, of Creston; charged with two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm and possession of a weapon by a felon. Police say that on Nov. 6, Smith and two other men shot up a house at 1207 Second Ave. in Sterling after they were asked to leave a party at that house.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
Friday
MURDER CASE: Nicholas T. Sheley, 32, of Sterling; charged with 25 counts of first-degree murder and one count each of residential burglary, armed robbery, and home invasion. He is charged in the late June 2008 deaths of Russell Reed, 93, of rural Sterling; Brock Branson, 29; his fiance Kilynna Blake, 20; her 2-year-old son Dayan; and Kenneth Ulve, 25, all of Rock Falls.
On the docket: Pretrial conference.
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