Ten years for man who admitted he had gun illegally, fled from police
Sep. 27—URBANA — A Champaign man who's been in jail for the past two years on weapons and fleeing police charges was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison after entering guilty pleas in those cases.
Johnnie Holbrook, 27, who last lived in the 1100 block of Joanne Lane but also listed a Mahomet address, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegally possessing a gun on Aug. 16, 2021, and six years in prison for aggravated fleeing and eluding on Aug. 13, 2021.
In an agreement worked out by Assistant State's Attorney Dan Taylor and Holbrook's attorney, Alfred Ivy, Holbrook will serve the prison sentences concurrently.
He admitted in the gun case that he had the gun in an apartment in Mahomet when federal marshals went to arrest him on outstanding warrants.
In the fleeing case, Holbrook admitted he took off from a traffic stop done by an Illinois State trooper who stopped him for speeding 102 mph on Interstate 57.
When he fled, Taylor said, Holbrook was clocked going 117 mph.
Holbrook was given credit on his sentence for two years and a month already served, and in return for the pleas, Taylor dismissed two other weapons offenses.
Judge Randy Rosenbaum agreed to recommend Holbrook for drug treatment while he's in prison.
While Holbrook was in jail on all those cases, he was also charged with the Aug. 15, 2020, murder of Christopher Kelly, 23, who was gunned down in the parking lot of Star Fox Food & Liquor, 1005 Bloomington Road, C.
However, a prosecutor dismissed those charges against Holbrook and co-defendant Trevoy Fonville, 27, about six weeks ago when a key witness could not be located for trial.
