Larry Myers
WHITE CO.— A Crossville drug dealer has been sentenced to prison after being convicted, not for dealing dope a second time, but for violating the probation he was sentenced to the first time.
As part of his most recent deal, a single count of Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance was dismissed.
On October 31, Larry Edwin Myers, 56, of Crossville, was sentenced to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) for four years for violating the terms of his 2015 probation.
Myers’ criminal history includes a felony conviction July 17, 1985 for Burglary, which earned him a sentence to the IDOT for four years.
On November 17, 1994 a felony charge of Aggravated Battery Causing Great Bodily Harm was reduced to simple Battery, for which he was sentenced to jail for 10 days and ordered to pay $469 in fines and fees.
The case that began his excruciatingly slow march to a prison cell began April 27, 2015 when he was convicted of one count of Unlawful Delivery of Methamphetamine and sentenced to probation for four years and ordered to pay $3,331.50 in fines and fees, of which he paid nothing.
It was that probation he was convicted of violating.
Another probation gone wrong
In an unrelated case of violating probation, Deanna M. Wright, 39, of New Haven, was arrested on or about November 23, 2017 and charged with Retail Theft and Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine.
Six days later, Nov. 29, 2017 she pleaded guilty to both charges and was sentenced to probation for two years and ordered to undergo drug treatment.
Nearly a year later, October 31, 2018 she was convicted of violating that probation and sentenced to IDOC for three years.
Wright still owes $1,834 from her fines and fees from a year ago.