A Hennepin man was sentenced to 4 years for a Class 1 felony of unlawful possession with the intent to deliver heroin and 2 years for the Class 3 felony of failing to report a change of address as a sex offender.

Police busted a vehicle in Putnam County on its way from Maine to the Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, finding 480 doses of LSD, cocaine, ketamine and psylocibin mushrooms, according to police.

A 26-year-old man and 30-year-old woman, both of Kewanee, were arrested after abackhoe reported stolen near Henry by the Illinois Department of Transportation was recovered by police.

A rural Bureau County man is being held on $2 million after drug agents seized more than 15 grams of purported cocaine during a controlled buy, drug agents said in a Wednesday press release.

A Putnam woman turned herself in Friday on a warrant stemming from a Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team investigation into the sale of heroin and fentanyl in rural Putnam and Marshall counties.

A Putnam County murderer didn’t live to hear it — Clifford Andersen died Nov. 10 in prison — but an appeals court has upheld his conviction and sentence.

Clifford Andersen, who was convicted in 2018 of murdering his 62-year-old sister-in-law, Deborah Dewey, has reportedly died in prison.