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A 55-year-old Bloomington man has been sentenced in federal court to 17 years in prison for attempted enticement of a person he believed was an 11-year-old girl, prosecutors said.

An Abingdon man was sentenced to 77 months in federal prison for possession of a sawed-off shotgun and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. 44-year-old Micah D. Mowen was sentenced on Wednesday, April 26, by Chief U.S. District Judge Sara L. Darrow to prison, which will be followed by three years of supervised release. At the sentencing hearing in front of Chief Judge Darrow, the government proffered evidence that in August 2019, deputies from the McDonough County Sheriff's Office ...

Cordero Harris, 34, of Moline, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute heroin, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm as a felon.   At the sentencing hearing in front of Chief United […]

A Vandalia, Missouri, man was sentenced to over a decade in federal prison last month for robbing a Warren County bank in 2021. 59-year-old Brian P. Cook of Vandalia, Missouri, was sentenced to 144 months in the Bureau of Prisons followed by three years of supervised release. Cook was indicted in May 2022 and pleaded guilty in August 2022. Evidence presented by the government during the sentencing hearing before Chief U.S. District Judge Sara L. Darrow showed that he had pointed what appeared to...

A father and son from Galesburg have been sentenced to over a decade in federal prison, each, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to a release from the U.S. Justice Department of Central Illinois, 53-year-old Gilbert D. Bicknell and 28-year-old Michael G. D. Bicknell were sentenced on July 7 by Chief U.S. District Judge Sara L. Darrow in Rock Island. Michael was sentenced to 168 months and his father, Gilbert, was sentenced to 156 months. Upon release, each will b...

A Galesburg father and son were sentenced to federal prison on July 7 for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.