The News-Gazette.com

 

Man gets 9 years for carjacking

By Mary Schenk
Wednesday January 3, 2007

URBANA – A former Champaign man who admitted taking part in a carjacking was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison.

Landon Phillips, 21, of Fort Madison, Iowa, formerly of the 100 block of Kenwood Road, pleaded guilty before Judge Tom Difanis to vehicular hijacking, admitting that on May 15 he joined with another man in beating an employee of the Illini Arcade, then stealing the man's car.

News-Gazette Archive

The full story is available in our paid story archive.

View the story » About the archive


Find this article at:
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/2007/01/03/man_gets_9_years_for_carjacking

Comments