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Plea Deal Reached In Deatherage Case

Thu, 02 Oct 2014 13:50:10 CDT
(Hillsboro)--A truck driver who hit and killed Illinois State Police Trooper Kyle Deatherage on Interstate 55 near Raymond has pled guilty in Montgomery County Court to two felony counts. 54 year old Johnny Felton, Jr. of Georgia was sentenced to thirty months of probation and fined twenty five hundred dollars plus court costs in a negotiated plea deal.

Felton was charged with reckless homicide and operating a commercial vehicle without a valid commercial driver's license.