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Flora Man Sentenced To 15 Years In IDOC

A state judge sentenced a Flora man to fifteen years in the Illinois Department of Corrections last week. 

 

Shelby County State’s Attorney Nichole Kroncke announces 42-year-old Nicholas Barfield will spend 15 years in the IDOC for Unlawful Participation of Methamphetamine Manufacturing with Prior Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine Conviction – a Class X Felony. 

 

The judge sentenced Barfield to a concurrent six-year prison term for the offense of Aggravated Fleeing or Attempting to Elude a Peace Officer. 

 

Shelby County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Barfield in mid-January 2021 after an attempted traffic stop. Barfield’s vehicle fled, exited the roadway and traveled through a field, hitting a ditch and disabling both headlights. The vehicle then re-entered the roadway and traveled east to the Tower Hill Blacktop. The vehicle eventually crashed into a guardrail while traveling over 100 yards off the roadway into a field becoming stuck. 

 

Barfield then fled on foot. A K-9 unit assisted deputies to find Barfield laying on his stomach in a creek. 

 

Deputies found a meth lab and a liquid substance testing positive for methamphetamine in Barfield’s vehicle. The weight of the liquid came out to over 400 grams of methamphetamine. 

 

Barfield has three other prior charges related to methamphetamine.

 

Kroncke thanks the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office saying that deputies have once again removed a repeat methamphetamine trafficker from the community. 

 

Barfield is required to serve over 11 years of his 15-year-sentence. He will now be transferred to the IDOC to commence his sentence. 

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