joelrosenberg (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} joelrosenberg) wrote,@ 2005-06-09 03:33:00 |
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You won't read about this at the "Citizens for a Safer Minnesota" website
Sorry; don't have a link, but...
Gun violence opponent indicted
The State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
June 3, 2005
By JAYETTE BOLINSKI
An anti-gun-violence activist who made headlines earlier this year when police allegedly found an illegal gun and drugs in her home has been indicted by a grand jury.
Annette "Flirty" Stevens, 48, of the 2500 block of South 15th Street posted $1,500 bail at the Sangamon County Jail and was released just before noon Thursday.
Stevens was indicted in two separate cases May 26, according to assistant Sangamon County state's attorney Amy Wolff.
The first involved a police-controlled drug buy using a confidential informant in January. Stevens allegedly offered to sell drugs to a person who reported her to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. The person then wore a wiretap during conversations leading up to and during a drug transaction in which Stevens allegedly sold him cocaine, Wolff said.
The second case involved the alleged discovery of an illegal gun at her home. According to Wolff, Springfield police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives used information from the drug purchase to obtain a search warrant for Stevens' home.
Officers allegedly found a gun with the serial number filed off and two different types of ammunition, as well as a small amount of cocaine. Stevens had no Firearm Owner Identification Card, Wolff said.
Police have said they obtained a search warrant for Stevens' house after her name came up repeatedly during their investigation of a string of drive-by shootings in the city earlier this year.
Stevens will have to make a first appearance in court, but neither the jail nor Wolff had information Thursday about the date.
Stevens told The State Journal-Register in late February that she is innocent and her arrest was an attempt by police to get her to give up information about unsolved crimes in the city. She said the gun that was found belonged to her son, Jericko Clark, 20, who was fatally shot July 13, 2002.
She also denied there were drugs in her home.
Clark was killed during gunplay between the occupants of two cars at Martin Luther King Drive and Ash Street. Eric Hickman, who was in the car with Clark, was sentenced to 80 years' imprisonment for Clark's murder on the grounds that he fired the first shot at the occupants of the other car, which ultimately led to Clark's death. The shot that killed Clark was return fire from the other car.
After her son's death, Stevens became involved in the anti-gun- violence movement. She helped establish and is president of a Springfield chapter of the Million Mom March, an organization that aims to prevent gun violence.
Sorry; don't have a link, but...
Gun violence opponent indicted
The State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
June 3, 2005
By JAYETTE BOLINSKI
An anti-gun-violence activist who made headlines earlier this year when police allegedly found an illegal gun and drugs in her home has been indicted by a grand jury.
Annette "Flirty" Stevens, 48, of the 2500 block of South 15th Street posted $1,500 bail at the Sangamon County Jail and was released just before noon Thursday.
Stevens was indicted in two separate cases May 26, according to assistant Sangamon County state's attorney Amy Wolff.
The first involved a police-controlled drug buy using a confidential informant in January. Stevens allegedly offered to sell drugs to a person who reported her to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. The person then wore a wiretap during conversations leading up to and during a drug transaction in which Stevens allegedly sold him cocaine, Wolff said.
The second case involved the alleged discovery of an illegal gun at her home. According to Wolff, Springfield police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives used information from the drug purchase to obtain a search warrant for Stevens' home.
Officers allegedly found a gun with the serial number filed off and two different types of ammunition, as well as a small amount of cocaine. Stevens had no Firearm Owner Identification Card, Wolff said.
Police have said they obtained a search warrant for Stevens' house after her name came up repeatedly during their investigation of a string of drive-by shootings in the city earlier this year.
Stevens will have to make a first appearance in court, but neither the jail nor Wolff had information Thursday about the date.
Stevens told The State Journal-Register in late February that she is innocent and her arrest was an attempt by police to get her to give up information about unsolved crimes in the city. She said the gun that was found belonged to her son, Jericko Clark, 20, who was fatally shot July 13, 2002.
She also denied there were drugs in her home.
Clark was killed during gunplay between the occupants of two cars at Martin Luther King Drive and Ash Street. Eric Hickman, who was in the car with Clark, was sentenced to 80 years' imprisonment for Clark's murder on the grounds that he fired the first shot at the occupants of the other car, which ultimately led to Clark's death. The shot that killed Clark was return fire from the other car.
After her son's death, Stevens became involved in the anti-gun- violence movement. She helped establish and is president of a Springfield chapter of the Million Mom March, an organization that aims to prevent gun violence.
