WILLIAMSON CO., Ill. - Two women, one of them from out of the area, one from Carterville, were sentenced this past week in Williamson County.
Williamson County State's Attorney Brandon Zanotti said that on March 5, 2019, Mandi Grammer, 33, of Carterville, was sentenced to three years in the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) for violating her terms of probation on a previous theft conviction in Williamson County.
On April 27, 2017, Grammer committed retail theft against the Casey’s General Store in Hurst. The theft was charged as a felony because Grammer had a prior theft conviction. Grammer pled guilty to the theft charge in September 2018, and on December 7, 2018, was sentenced to probation and a 180-day county jail sentence. Grammer never showed up to the county jail to serve her sentence, and a petition to revoke her probation was filed. A Williamson County Judge then sentenced her to three years in DOC.
Then on March 8, 2019, Ashley Collins, 31, of Montgomery, Illinois, pled guilty and was sentenced to two years in DOC for unlawful possession of a controlled substance, a class 4 felony.
On July 14, 2018, a Marion Police officer was called to Rural King, where complaints were being made about Collins behaving belligerently in the parking lot and causing a scene. Collins was found to be in possession of methylphenidate/hydrochloride, a controlled substance under the Illinois Controlled Substance Act.
Collins has prior convictions out of northern Illinois for possession of drugs and retail theft.