Cecil Gulley, from the March 2010 arrest at his home in Harrisburg, during which Dama Elizabeth Miller was also busted
SALINE CO.—The rumors are true—major drug-distribution suspect Cecil Gulley is dying of cancer, and is out of the Saline County Detention Center while he’s busy dying of it in Evansville.
We were notified of this circumstance a little over two weeks ago. At that time, a Friday (January 20), our source for the matter believed Gulley wouldn’t last the weekend, but apparently he’s held on. Gulley has been locked up in the SCDC for the past year after an arrest for his part in a methamphetamine manufacturing/distribution ring. Many others were arrested and/or convicted upon Gulley’s bust, some of them federal, including Dama Elizabeth Miller and Victoria Lewis, both of whom were buying pills for local meth manufacturers, Gulley being supposedly among that bunch.
We don’t know what kind of cancer Gulley has, nor what his treatment is. We do know that Saline County (rightfully) didn’t want to burden their taxpayers with the egregious costs of whatever the treatment is, even if it’s just morphine to ease the pain while he dies. Unfortunately, according to what we’re being told, Gulley, being disabled and indigent, is burdening the taxpayers of the entire state of Illinois with his public aid recipient status, but at least the cost is being spread to working taxpaying citizens of a larger arena than just Saline (not that that’s a lot of people in either venue). So Saline made the choice to release Gulley on his own recognizance once they learned that the diagnosis was as serious as it was. I don’t think anyone believed the old guy was going to hang on as long as he has.
When we learn more, we’ll bring it.