Joshua L. McDowell, Lawrence County mug
CARMI, Ill. - One of Lawrence County's young crims got sideways with the law in White County Monday on a warrant out of Richland County.
What the criminally well-rounded Joshua L. McDowell, 30, most recently of Lawrenceville, was doing in far-flung White County from Lawrence might not be one of those things we immediately find out...but it's going to make some county offices some coin when all is said and done.
Carmi police stopped McDowell while he was eastbound on Main Street at Bradford Supply, in a red 1994 Ford truck just after 7 a.m. Monday morning (June 26) for displaying an expired registration; police noted in their report that it had been expired a year.
The driver, McDowell, was found to have a suspended license and a Richland County warrant. Court documents show that the warrant was a Failure to Appear for Driving While License Suspended in Richland County...dating back to late 2014. He was sentenced to Conditional Discharge in May of 2015, and after a brief jail stint, he was placed on pay or appear in Richland...which wasn't very successful. A couple of times.
So most recently, he was placed on POA again, but again, apparently wasn't very regular, an Richland issued a warrant.
McDowell now faces not only the Richland charge, but also White County charges of Expired Registration, Driving Suspended, and Operating Uninsured.
He was able to post $150 on the White counts, and $250 on the warrant (plus $75 for FTA fee and $20 for booking fee for Richland) on the Richland County warrant; so far, he's not in that kind of trouble in Lawrence. However, he IS set for a jury trial in September on a - you guessed it - Driving While License Revoked or Suspended charge, a felony, following a December 13, 2016 arrest there. Check the print version, where we'll keep you posted.