Jesteen Weiler and her assets. Somewhat expensive, we hear.

CLAY CO.—Tragedy follows ATV death: There appears to have been a tragedy for little Lily Jones, age 2, following the one that occurred April 15 that resulted in the death of her mother…and this one has taken her away from her father. Read the article that didn’t appear anywhere else online, as we worked it right up until deadline for the print version…and no other media in the area is going to touch this.

HARRISBURG—What lies ahead for Harrisburg?: There is a lot of corruption in Saline and surrounding counties…and something is happening that’s uncovering it and speeding up exponentially. We know what it is, and that will come forth in due time; but in the meantime, this article prepares you with a lead-up to who might give up their “seat on the bus.”

U.S. DIST. COURT, BENTON/BRIDGEPORT—Former mayor now a federal convict: Max Schauf, proving us right after ten years of our coverage of his criminal activities in the city of Bridgeport. Be watching who we’re calling “criminals” these days…in a couple of years, they’ll be indicted, too.

Adonna Bennett

EDGAR CO.—More stink raised over airport lease: Our Heartland offering for the month, and it’s a doozy: former county board chairman Adonna Bennett kinda immersed herself in hot water with those fed up with corruption in Edgar when she made a nine-minute presentation to the board in early May. Read why this happened, and what it means for the airport authority.

HARDIN CO.—Deputy relieved of duty; backlash over background, but facts can’t be changed: The spotlight’s on Tom Maynor once again, and it’s showing a lot of dirt we never had before.

ALBION—Fire house construction halted; contract invalid: The massive debacle in Albion, prompted by former firefighters who somehow came to be under the mistaken impression that their feces didn’t stink, has not only stopped the construction of the new fire department, but has also caused former mayor Ryan Hallam’s actions to come into question. Now all that remains to be seen is what the authorities are going to do about it.

The perpetually ape-like Jonathan Trout

RICHLAND CO.—Catch-and-release Trout hemmed up as of mid-June: The repulsive Earp gang hits the headlines again, this time as the youngest, Jonathan Trout, has agreed to spend a few months in DOC after violating the sex offender registration rules in two counties, and beating up one person after another.

EGYPT

WHITE CO.—TRIAL FOR COSTON IS OFF FOR MAY: After Judge Tom Foster insisted on setting a jury trial date for Danny K. Coston several weeks ago, the May 21 date is off because defense attorneys are still trying to convince the powers-that-be—and maybe themselves—that Danny Coston is insane…or at least was at the time of the murders of Jacob Wheeler and Jessica Evans.

GALLATIN CO.—Boy known as ‘problem child’ in Gallatin wrecks at rural location, sends girlfriend to hospital: More information on the situation with Andrew Cox, whose alleged high-speed antics at Garden of the Gods a few weekends ago caused grave problems for himself and a passenger, Paige Coonse.

SALINE CO.—Lawyer’s nephew turns himself in: Madison Medley, it’s been confirmed, has turned himself in over a stunt involving Terry Mott’s business. What will come of it, however, remains to be seen.

GALLATIN CO.—Village police chief gets slap on the wrist for violence: As we predicted, Nick Rider is out of any serious charges he was facing back in March.

SALINE CO.—Accused rapist has half his face removed in Springfield surgery: We’d like to report that someone ripped Matthew Connors’ face right off his head, but that’s only about half accurate, and it wasn’t anyone who had anything to do with his alleged rape victims. The full story here.

HARDIN CO.—“Wenzel weed” heir busted on meth charges: Nick Wenzel. Shoulda took up after his dad with the Hardin County volcanic-soil-weed and not got involved in the poison known as meth.

Ian Hamilton

SALINE CO.—Where ‘somewhere in Harrisburg’ did auto altercation take place?: The fight between Kyle Day and punk Ian Hamilton went down in a moving vehicle, this according to authorities…but WHERE was the car when it was moving, other than “somewhere” on the streets of the ‘burg? People really do want to know this.

SALINE CO.—Couple face drug charges: Strange little story leads our drug round-up out of Saline.

HAMILTON CO.—Drug convict busted selling pills to confidential source: Hamilton County dope roundup.

SALINE CO.—Urination lands underage drinker in the clink: Nothing strange about peeing in the middle of the road, right? Well, actually…yeah, it is, especially when the cops are passing by. This story is a must-read for the names of these children alone, as people are coming up with more and more bizarre ways to spell said names.

SALINE CO.—Doper felon charged following burglaries: You’d think being in the pages of Disclosure before for the EXACT SAME THING would be bad enough…but this dumbass apparently can’t get enough of the negative publicity.

WHITE CO.—Theft and violence loom large in White: Apparently the full moon had a really bad impact on some of the weaker-minded crims in White these past 30 days.

HARRISBURG—VANDALISM SHATTERS GLASS: Pictoral content of the damage in Harrisburg in early May, when someone took a BB gun to plate glass windows in town.

David Compton

WHITE CO.—Meth kingpin jailed: The vile David Compton, said to be one of the most prolific drug-movers in downstate, hemmed up again, this time in White….and we wish they’d KEEP him.

WHITE CO.—Trio charged with mob action in wake of beating: Another full moon story, apparently…or else Carmi is becoming Old Shawneetown North.

GALLATIN CO.—Shoot-out lands one back in prison and another on probation: And speaking of Shawneetown….here’s one involving one of our readers, a Mr. Capeheart.

SALINE CO.—Bra stash: Female crims in Harrisburg, gotta do what they gotta do.

HEARTLAND

FLOOD 2013: CLARK/CRAWFORD/LAWRENCE: Pictoral content of flood photos from the Wabash that occurred at the end of April

CRAWFORD—Woman cited for DUI-drugs in fatal collision: The mess Joyce Hardiman has made of her life….allegedly, of course.

EDGAR/CLARK COs.—Merger of transit authorities being discussed: Here’s something you don’t see every day: The RIDES Mass Transit Authority in Harrisburg is in talks with Central Illinois Mass Transit to merge the two, since not very many people are inclined to “take the bus” around the country routes.

JASPER CO.—Drug bust snags meth conspirators: LOTS of meth-making going on in Jasper County. Here’s one way the authorities are getting a handle on it.

CRAWFORD CO.—Arsonist sought: Sheriff Todd Liston, making a plea to the arsonist who struck locations in Heathsville and Flat Rock.

CRAWFORD CO.—Sex offenders with weapons and pair popped with pills highlight crime report: Crim roundup in Crawford is exactly what the headline says.

CRAWFORD CO.—Social media impacts sheriff’s presentation to county board: Be the Robinson Insider never thought they’d make the agenda of the Crawford County board…but they did.

CLARK CO.—Cannabis cases king in Clark: As if the alliteration in that headline wasn’t enough, the two in question are from Casey.

NEWTON—Newton council to use health department services: Meeting coverage of the Newton City Council, where they’re going to be taking advantage of the Jasper County Health Department and hopefully save the city some money.

CENTRAL

LAWRENCE CO.—Guilty verdict in two-week murder trial: Print coverage of the Tyler McQueen murder trial; you have to read this to get what happened at the end of it, because it could mean more time and money spent on this case, and no one else, as usual, is saying it.

CLAY CO.—Speedy trial set in murder case: The odd case of Denny Blanchard, as featured on the front page last month, has taken a “speedy” turn…and one that’s bad for the defense, as prosecutorial pit bull Mike Vujovich has been called in to assist Marilyn Brant with the case.

CLAY CO.—LIGHTNING STRIKES, FIRE IGNITES: Pictoral of the massive fire that ensued after lightning struck a tank battery in north Clay in early May.

LAWRENCE CO.—No charges filed in alleged assault case: Nothing yet on the situation with Dennis York, who is accused of battering Lawrence County prosecutor Chris Quick in late March.

RICHLAND CO.—Publisher pushes for resolution in bogus OP case: Continuation of the ridiculous OP judge Kim Harrell allowed the questionable neighbors of the Disclosure crew to have a year ago…and what the fight might mean for future journalists.

RICHLAND CO.—Habitual drug crim busted again as pot and pills fill blotter: The Richland County drug roundup…and it’s heavy-duty.

LAWRENCE CO.—Mayor’s brother punched: Chuckwagon Charlie got a faceful of fist here recently…and then there’s the crim who allegedly beat the prison guard at Lawrence Correctional, whacked-out hair and all.

LAWRENCE CO.—Further charges filed against Lawrenceville resident accused of 2012 sexual misconduct: More charges against Skip Davis. Which makes folks ponder: who’s been “covering” for Skip all these years?

LAWRENCE CO.—STREET SERENADE: Pictoral of what was going on during the week of the Tyler McQueen trial, late April.

WABASH CO.—Violence, drugs and prosecutor pickin and choosin: Cassandra Goldman, still not doling out justice fair and across the board in WabCo.

LAWRENCE CO.—Repeat Aten doper, DeCausey and wannabes to drug blotter: The dop roundup in Lawrence, and some big names have, like turds, floated to the top.

WAYNE CO.—Sex crimes charged: When does a month go by when there ISN’T a sex crime charged in Wayne? This wouldn’t be one of them.

RICHLAND CO.—Why didn’t the sheriff want you to know about this?: The wreck at the Claremont turn off U.S. 50. Which, of course, is made obsolete because we got the FOIA response the day after the paper came out, which is what Andy Hires does.

WAYNE CO.—Foul mouth drunk busted: What drunk in Wayne County ISN’T foul-mouthed, we ask you.

RICHLAND CO.—Sex abuse confession snubbed, charges dismissed: Court appointed attorney soaks taxpayers: Very quietly, the charges of sexual abuse of a young girl as filed against a Noble woman were dismissed a few months ago. in this article, we have the full story of how her court-appointed attorney didn’t do the public any favors, but sure did line his pockets with OUR cash.

CLAY CO.—Inmate with MRSA granted reduced bond and sent to home confinement: Just another typical day in the county jail system.

EDWARDS CO.—Teen gets seven years for burglary, theft: The improbable badness of a couple of Edwards County punks, who’ve started life in the wrong direction early.

OP-ED

Back Over Your Tales
Voice of the People
Surly & Uncooperative (Jack) How one man turned unhappy into a career
Icy (Ang) Stockholm called. They want their syndrome back
Prose & Cons (Brian Ellis) Pachyderms, ostriches and animal attacks over Doritos
Guest Column (Jerry Panozzo) Betrayed by hope: My experience from the defense side of the courtroom

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Eric Gregg’s front-page photo with cutline

HARRISBURG—The appointment of Harrisburg Mayor Eric Gregg to Illinois’ Prisoner Review Board was not an unexpected thing when it occurred on April 26, 2013.

However, what’s ensued in the weeks following has been somewhat unheralded.

And, combined with rumblings in other sectors of Saline County, it’s beginning to look like things are heating up for the power brokers of the area.

Just what that will mean for those in positions of power remains to be seen, however, as insiders say that the fabric that’s holding together what’s considered one of the most corrupt counties in downstate is rumored to be fraying at the seams; and, if this is the case, no one can blame Gregg for taking the state position and getting the hell out of local politics before things are ripped to shreds.

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Aaron Rector, 16, is reported to have been involved in a series of alleged crimes involving vehicles—again—including setting one vehicle on fire, this somewhere in Saline County (we’re still getting the details).

As far as we can ascertain from initial reports, Rector, another juvenile, and two adults were in on the alleged spree. The others involved wrote out statements pinning Rector down to the alleged thefts, although Rector is telling authorities he was just ‘in the back seat’ when this was all going down, and that the others were the ones actually up to no good and committing the crimes. Reportedly, all involved were drinking, which just exacerbated things.

Maria Rector, looking unusually happy to be in DOC at Logan Correctional

Aaron Rector from a couple of years ago

Rector was shipped back to Franklin County juvenile detention, where he’s spent the better part of the past several years and where, probably, he should be kept (juvenile detention…ANY juvenile detention up to and including IYC), since he can’t stop getting in trouble, whether he’s instigating it or whether he just gets drawn in. Regular readers will recall that Rector was involved in car thefts from more than a year ago, and at about that time, it was also learned that his older brother was the victim of an alleged sex predator (scroll down to the bottom of the page at the link)—his own stepmother, Maria Rector, 25, with whom it’s been alleged the older brother fathered one of her children, and maybe two. Rector finally entered a plea in her Saline County case regarding the matter (she was also charged in other counties, including White) and is currently in DOC for the next several years on the sex charge….all of which probably doesn’t make the young Aaron Rector feel any better about himself OR his brother.

Since Aaron is on parole from the 2012 incident, we’re hearing it’s likely he will be shipped to IYC. We should have more in the next print version, as it takes a while for these things to develop…so be sure you’re watching for it, and of course you can always get an online membership to read the e-Edition; sign up today!

It’s “sort of” because no one was injured, so it wasn’t exactly “a shooting”…it was just a resident firing in the air. However, there was reportedly an arrest, and here’s what we know:

An iN THE AIR shooting….

At about 10:20 p.m. last night (Friday, May 17, 2013) Adam Fancher was at his parents’ house (the Terry Fancher residence) at The Ridge in northwestern Clay County when he fired a weapon into the air, “blowing off steam,” as it was characterized to us by unofficial sources. But, as it turned out, Adam Fancher is a felon, and having a weapon in his possession—firing it notwithstanding—reportedly violated his parole.

Someone called the cops, and the response was massive, as it usually is at The Ridge. At least five state troopers are reported to have arrived with the locals, and were there until 3:30 a.m. or so, when it was sorted out and Fancher was reportedly taken in.

And that’s all there was to that.

Rampant rumors about another shooting, this one in another location (we’ve heard Flora, as well as Louisville), have no basis in fact. The gist of these was that Robert Sherman had gone on a rampage and shot people, supposedly members of his family. THIS IS NOT THE CASE, and there’s simply nothing to it. How this one got started, we may never know. But our sources have been calling law enforcement and bugging them about it all day, and it’s just not real. So everyone worried about that one can rest easy.

Check back frequently about The Ridge situation, to see if there are any changes.

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“It appears they were after drugs,” Hardin County sheriff JT Fricker told Disclosure.

NOT the pharmacy in question…just a generic image

Fricker said the break-in took place sometime after midnight, Thursday, May 16.

“It was an employee who came to work on Friday morning and found that someone had thrown something through a window to gain entry,” Fricker said.

The sheriff said the only thing taken was hydrocodone.

When asked, Fricker said he was not prepared to discuss any potential evidence gleaned from surveillance cameras located at the pharmacy.

He did confirm that Illinois State Police Crime Scene Technicians were called to process the scene for evidence.

“We are expecting to make an arrest in the pharmacy break-in in the very near future,” Fricker said.

Sheriff Fricker said his department is also investigating an unrelated residential break-in during which a PlayStation 3 was taken.

We’ve learned that the female in question was Adina Montgomery, who has a minimal criminal history in Lawrence, but whose exploits when intoxicated are kind of becoming legendary.

Below is the original post.

LAWRENCE CO.—It sounds like a belligerent, intoxicated female has gotten the best of Lawrenceville officer Brandon Sapp’s police vehicle.

Reports to Disclosure this evening, Friday, May 17, 2013, indicate that a female was taken into custody at Tykal’s American Bar in downtown Lawrenceville at about 10:20 p.m., after it was reported that she was “fighting” in the bar.

We’re unclear on any more of that aspect of it, but we do know that when Sapp took her into custody, she was kicking at him and other officers responding to the scene…then when she was put in the back of Sapp’s cruiser, she reportedly kicked the back window out.

When she arrived at the county jail at 10:25, she was reported still kicking the cage between the front and back seat of the cruiser…and just about anything else she could get her feet on.

Check back with us in the morning, when hopefully we’ll find out who this female is, and whether she had her good boots on.

Whoops. Wrong on that count tonight, cupcake.

Our report this morning was that Lou, who owned/operated Lou’s Restaurant on Judy Avenue in Bridgeport, had been found dead in his home after he missed his bus route (he drives for the local school system.)

However, that wasn’t accurate: He had been found unresponsive and bleeding from his head, lying on the floor of his place.

Lawrence County sheriff’s authorities broke down the door of his place and was able to get to Lou, called an ambulance, and he was transferred to Gateway in Evansville, where he was in very serious condition. He died earlier this evening, according to the family. They’re uncertain of the cause of death, as well as of the cause of the bleeding; he may have hit his head after falling, or he may have had an aneurysm.

From the earlier post: Lou has relatives in some of our favorite county offices including the circuit clerk’s office, where Circuit Clerk Peggy Fredericks is a cousin, as well as the Red Hill School District, where Peggy’s brother, Bob Christy, is on the school board.

Lou’s has been a vendor for our paper almost since the establishment of it in 2003, at times selling literally hundreds of copies of Disclosure and always being one of our top vendors, as his restaurant is a favorite stop for folks in Lawrence, with a convenient drive-up window where people could buy their papers without fear of being hassled by former mayor Max Schauf or any of his cronies (Lou was the kind of guy who would tell Schauf to “blow it out his ass” if ever he dared to give any of the restaurant’s customers a hard time, anyway). As well, the restaurant has one of our favorite lunch servings, a fantastic taco salad, which they advertise in our paper as “Disclosure‘s favorite,” and one of which we just picked up Tuesday night during delivery.

Our deepest sympathies to the family of Lou Satterthwaite; we’re going to miss him and his raucous laughter and bad jokes (he was a constant jokester and they were usually always the same jokes every time, but that just made them even more funny). When we learn about funeral arrangements, we’ll post them, as we’ll likely attend the services.

Zephrum and Lily Jones

CLAY CO.—A tragedy in mid-April was made even more disastrous just three weeks later when a Clay County father had his parental rights violated by his daughter’s grandmother.

Lilian (Lily) Jones, age 2, was left without a mother after Andrea Weiler, 25, died two days following an ATV accident in Jasper County at that time.

The baby was staying with her father, Zephrum Jones, 30, that weekend per a joint agreement between the parents that had been in affect for the past eight months, since Weiler and Jones had split up after six years and when they were both living in Vincennes, Ind. Jones had moved back to Flora, and Weiler was still living in Indiana when the tragic accident occurred.

As the baby’s legal surviving parent, Jones immediately stepped up to the plate and began to make a life for his toddler.

However, all that came to a crashing halt when the little girl’s maternal grandmother refused to return her after a visit Jones allowed her to have during the first weekend in May.

Now, facing an unnecessary guardianship case in Clay County circuit court, Zephrum Jones is doing everything he can to get Lily back home.

But it appears that the grandmother, Sherrie Kittle, is driven by something more than just concern for the little girl, as court documents show; and a judge has already deemed that the matter can’t be resolved on any kind of emergency basis after Jones attempted to get his daughter back, first through law enforcement, then with a petition for Order of Protection.

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LAWRENCE CO.—Contrary to news we received this morning, Lou Satterthwaite is indeed alive and in an Evansville hospital as of this afternoon, Friday, May 17, 2013.

His status, however, is reported as “not doing very good,” this according to a county official who has been able to make the appropriate phone calls and reach folks we weren’t able to this morning. An initial call to the circuit clerk’s office, where Lou’s cousin Peggy Fredericks is the circuit clerk and was absent this morning, had it that Lou, owner/operator of Lou’s Restaurant in Bridgeport, was deceased, was apparently misinformation (likely NOT intentional, as we trust the little gal we talked to).

Our county official just called to advise that Lou was found unresponsive this morning by an ambulance crew after he missed his bus route for the local school system.

Lou was transported to an Evansville hospital, where it’s suspected he’s suffered some kind of brain problem, possibly an aneurysm, but the exact cause is unknown.

We apologize for any grief or consternation the previous post may have caused…but we reiterate our assertions about Lou—he’s one of the finest people we’ve ever known, and when he pulls through this, he’ll probably laugh his ass off at being declared deceased for a couple of hours.

GET WELL, LOU!