URBANA — A Champaign woman who admitted using a stolen credit card at an Urbana store was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Eugenia Estes-Keys, 33, who listed an address in the 200 block of Holts Drive, pleaded guilty Wednesday before Champaign County Judge Heidi Ladd to burglary, admitting that on May 19 she entered the Meijer Store, 2500 S. Philo Road, intending to commit a theft.
Estes-Kays had been arrested in July in connection with the theft of credit cards in May from a locker at the Activities and Recreation Center in Champaign that were later used at the Meijer store. She was also ordered to make $591 in restitution.
Ladd agreed to recommend Estes-Keys for the Department of Corrections' boot camp program. She is due to turn herself in on March 20 to begin serving her sentence.
In other criminal cases resolved recently in Champaign County with guilty pleas:
— Byron Godbolt, 30, whose last known address was in the 1900 block of Amber Lane, Urbana, was sentenced to nine years in prison for possession with intent to deliver cannabis.
He admitted that on April 13, he had about a half-pound of cannabis in his home. Other charges of armed violence and aggravated unlawful use of weapons were dismissed.
Godbolt was also ordered to pay more than $1,300 in fines and forfeit guns, ammunition and cannabis seized from his home to Urbana police. He was told to report for prison on March 14.
— Channing Knox, 21, whose last known address was in the 2500 block of West Springfield Avenue, Champaign, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to delivery of a controlled substance. He admitted selling less than a gram of cocaine on March 15, 2011, to a source working with Urbana police at a location in Champaign.
Other more serious charges of delivery within 1,000 feet of a city park were dismissed.
— Matthew Cassady, 23, whose last known address was in the 100 block of Village Parkway, Savoy, was sentenced to six years in prison for domestic battery with a prior domestic battery conviction. He admitted that on Aug. 20, he pushed a 21-year-old Savoy woman to the ground and kneed her on the head. He was given credit for six months already served in the county jail.
— Jamal Cook, 19, who listed an address in the 2000 block of Greendale Drive, Champaign, was sentenced to 30 months of probation and 52 days in the county jail after pleading guilty to reckless discharge of a firearm.
He admitted that on Nov. 12 he fired a gun while at a party in the area of Chanute and West streets in Rantoul, endangering the life of another man. No one was hit by the gunfire.
Another charge of aggravated unlawful use of weapons was dismissed in return for Cook's plea.
Cook was told to report for his jail sentence on March 14.
— James D. Davenport, 32, who listed an address in the 800 block of Sherwood Terrace, Champaign, was sentenced to four years of probation after pleading guilty to possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. He admitted having a small amount of cocaine at his home on June 15. He was also fined $1,020.
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