Drug convict busted selling pills to confi dential source
HAMILTON CO.—A McLeansboro repeat offender has made his way back into the headlines and is the lead of this month’s crime report.
HAMILTON CO.—A McLeansboro repeat offender has made his way back into the headlines and is the lead of this month’s crime report.

CRAWFORD CO.—The death of a motorcyclist shut down Illinois Route 1 north of Robinson on Friday, April 26, 2013, but it’s only lead to a misdemeanor DUI-drugs count for the local woman who was behind the wheel of the van that the cycle struck.

EDGAR/CLARK COs.—The East Central Illinois Mass Transit District (ECIMTD), based out of Paris, Illinois and covering Edgar and Clark counties is in serious talks with Rides Mass Transit (RMT) based out of Harrisburg in Saline County, located in deep southern Illinois.
JASPER CO.—Five suspects face a variety of drug charges following busts that all took place April 9 in Jasper County.
ROBINSON— Authorities are asking the public’s help in catching an arsonist who has torched two structures, one near Heathsville and another near Flat Rock.

WHITE CO.—A notorious convict in the drug/meth community has been arrested again, not even a year after being out of the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC), this time on charges of Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine, Unlawful Possession of Controlled Substance, Unlawful Possession of Cannabis and Unlawful Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
WHITE CO.—Three Carmi men have been charged in the April 10 beating of another man in an alley.

GALLATIN CO.— It appears a shoot-out between two Gallatin County men has landed one back in prison and the other on probation.
SALINE CO.—A Harrisburg woman went from passenger in a car to inmate in a jail in a matter of minutes back in mid-April.

LAWRENCE CO.—A Bridgeport man who appears to have a penchant for drinking and violence has been charged with punching the former mayor’s brother in the nose.