3 Illinois residents arrested by city police

Monday, September 16, 2024 at 1:00 AM

By Kathy Bottorff

Officers with the Plymouth Police Department arrested three individual from Illinois during the weekend while patroling U.S. 30.

A concerned driver alerted Plymouth Police to a possibly impaired driver at about 12:30 Saturday morning, September 14th. Plymouth Police were dispatched to U.S. 30 near Queen Road.

Officer Lovely initiated a traffic stop near the intersection of U.S 30 and King Road.

The Chicago driver, 26-year-old Victor Apantenco-Perez, provided a temporary visitor license from Illinois.

The officer detected the odor of alcoholic emitting from Apantenco-Perez. He was given standardized field sobriety testing and then transported to Saint Joseph Hospital to get a certified chemical test. Apantenco-Perez was over two times the legal limit and was transported to the Marshall County Jail where he was lodged for operating while intoxicated above .15 as a Class A Misdemeanor and operator never licensed as a Class C Misdemeanor.

Early Friday morning Officer Fisher stopped a vehicle for speeding on U.S. 30 at Oak Drive.

The driver was identified as Ana Maria Sierra Marin of Chicago and Officer Fisher determined that she had never had a driver's license. He also discovered that the passenger, Cuevas Michel Anayanis, 33, of Hanover Park was in possession of marijuana. Both females were transported to Marshall County Jail.

Marin was booked in for operating without a license and Anayanis was charged with possession of marijuana.

Readers are reminded that charging information supported by an affidavit of probable cause is a mere allegation that a crime has been committed and that there is only probable cause to believe a crime has been committed. They are presumed innocent throughout the proceedings and are entitled to be represented by counsel and entitled to a trial by jury at which the State is obligated to provide proof beyond a reasonable doubt before a judgment of guilt may be made.