DEANGELO COWPER
SALINE CO., Ill. - A violent crim who finally pulled a couple of stunts authorities weren’t going to put up with is off to IDOC.
The Saline County State’s Attorney’s office has advised that Deangelo M. Cowper, 33 of Harrisburg recently but originally of Carrier Mills, pled guilty to a sexual assault charge on Tuesday, December 14 in Saline County Circuit Court.
In a negotiated agreement with the state, Cowper entered a plea of guilty to one count of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault and was sentenced to 20 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
The offense occurred June 27, 2015, in Harrisburg upon a 13-year-old victim after Cowper had her consume controlled substances.
He had been charged with three Class X felonies in that case, and five Class 2 felonies the plea was to one of the Class X felonies. As a result, Cowper will be required to serve 85 percent of his sentence and register as a sex offender for life.
Cowper was still under bond from the sex assault allegations when, on August 29, he is accused of stabbing a man in an incident on Poplar Street in Harrisburg. Just prior to that, he’d been sentenced in a misdemeanor count in neighboring Hardin County.
Facing all this, Cowper, set for a jury trial on the 14th, opted to enter a plea.
It’s unclear what the status of the stabbing case - in which he’s charged with Aggravated Battery in a Public Place and Felon in Possession of a Weapon, both Class 3 felonies - currently is right now.
Assistant State’s Attorney Eva Walker handled the case for the state. Judge Walden Morris presided.