Illinois man sentenced for shooting state trooper

ROLLING MEADOWS, Sick. (KWQC) – A Wheeling, Illinois was sentenced Friday to 57 years in jail for taking pictures an Illinois State Police trooper in 2019.

Volodymyr Dragan, 46, was convicted earlier this 12 months of a number of costs, together with tried first-degree homicide.

On Aug. 15, 2019, troopers served an arrest/search warrant at Dragan’s residence. The warrant stemmed from an earlier incident when Dragan held a trooper at gunpoint throughout a visitors cease, in line with a media launch.

As they have been serving the warrant, photographs have been fired from inside Dragan’s residence and a trooper was shot by way of the forearm. The trooper, then 32, recovered from his accidents and has since returned to full responsibility, in line with the discharge.

“As a result of tireless efforts of the ISP, our legislation enforcement companions and the assistant state’s attorneys on this case, this harmful particular person has been dropped at justice,” ISP Director Brendan F. Kelly stated within the launch. “The ISP appreciates the court docket’s robust sentence as we proceed our combat to make Illinois safer, not only for members of legislation enforcement, however for each resident of Illinois.”

Dragan has been within the Cook dinner County Jail since August 2019, in line with the discharge.

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