Peru Rapist Sent To Prison

27 year old Emerson Antonio Reyes-Hernandez was given 14 years apiece for two counts of criminal aggravated sexual assault and 4 years for a robbery chargeyesterday in La Salle County Court.

He has to serve all the terms consecutively. He must serve 85 percent of the rape sentences and is eligible for good time while serving his robbery charge.

He’s going away for raping a 67 year old Dixon woman on March 30th while at the Mendota train station. Reyes-Hernandez admitted to punching the woman and dragging her into a bathroom at the train station where he raped her. He also stole her cell phone, which police say he later led them to where he discarded it.

Reyes-Hernandez has no prior convictions.

14 Year Old Boy Flown To Trauma Center

A 14 year old boy was sent to a trauma center yesterday afternoon after a crash near Troy Grove.

According to the La Salle County Sheriff’s Office, Frederick Reutner of Mendota was at the intersection of East 3rd and North 37th Road just west of Troy Grove when a 14 year old boy on a motorcycle ran a stop sign, crashing into Reutner.

The boy was taken to Mendota Hospital before he was life flighted to a trauma center. His condition isn’t known. Reutner wasn’t hurt. No one was ticketed.

Local Attorney Suspended

An Ottawa attorney won’t practice law for at least a year.

A state judge has put Melvin Hoffman on suspension for three years. After the first year, he’ll be able to practice law but be put on probation for the next two years where he’ll have to undergo anger management and a psychiatric examination.

In the ruling, a judge said Hoffman has “serious anger issues” and his misconduct was serious. Hoffman’s accused of calling one judge “a narcissistic, maniacal, mental case who shouldn’t be on a bench”. In another incident, Hoffman allegedly compared a case he handled with the DCFS as “kangaroo court” and that the court hearing was “no more a fair hearing than they had in Russia when operating under the Soviet system”. The final accusation says Hoffman called another lawyer unethical and said the lawyer “must be from a Jewish firm”.