CLAY CO., Ill. - Four individuals are encountering new digs this week after having been sentenced in Clay County Circuit Court, according to State's Attorney Joel Powless.
Yesterday (Monday, February 11), Powless was successful in getting some repeat offenders back behind bars, as well as some faces new to the IDOC merry-go-round.
That was the case with newcomer Bradley A. Caudle, 30, of Flora, who just a couple of months ago (November 27, 2018) decided that a little five-finger discount from Walmart in Flora wouldn't hurt. It did, to the tune of a Class 3 felony charge of Theft, a three and a half year sentence to IDOC, and $1,230 in fines and fees, none of which Caudle has bothered to pay.
A probation revocation got the next guy - who's from Flora but who hailed from Lawrenceville at the time of the original filing in June of 2015 - hemmed up. That'd be David B. Koch, 45, who was afforded a probation sentence on a Class 3 felony Contributing to the Criminal Delinquency of a Minor about two weeks after he was charged. Through a set of gyrations that would make an ordinary person's head spin, Koch went through several months of the 30-month probationary period, but had a revocation filed on him in February of 2016 after failing to appear on pay-or-appear court settings. That filing dragged through the court system until Monday, when Koch was resentenced on the original charge after the revocation. Koch, unlike many of his counterparts, has actually paid $575 toward his fines and fees, although that appears to have been bond money; $1,382 remains on his post-IDOC balance.
A guy from Louisville, Kentucky (at least, so he says...) was next. Kenneth Diaz Pittaluga, 37, apparently came all the way to Clay County on December 20, 2018, to use a Forged/Counterfeit Debit/Credit Card, whereupon he was charged with that very count, a Class 3 felony, along with a Class 3 felony Theft count, which was dismissed in exchange for the plea. The action went down at Walmart in Flora (of course), when Pittaluga tried to use a counterfeit card to buy Walmart gift cards. Pitty is going to serve four years in IDOC, and has been ordered to pay $937 in fines and fees, none of which have been paid.
And lastly, a Flora meth-slinger will be serving a couple of years for said slinging. That's Albert Harper, 36, who caught four meth-related or otherwise felonies in 2018 alone. One of them, Unlawful Possession with Intent to Deliver, got him shipped off in a plea agreement, with the rest of them being dismissed, this one occurring early last August in Flora. Harper was able to post cash bond for his release, and authorities kept that $3,000, leaving $4,345 for Harper to pay (without slinging meth to do it) upon release from his five-and-a-half year IDOC sentence (truth in sentencing gets him out in a little more than two years, so we'll see if he can straighten up and fly right in that amount of time.)