An Illinois man is in jail for threatening a police informant on the same day he received sentences for two prior drug charges.
Starkville Police Department arrested 24-year-old Trevor Sullivan, of Peoria, Illinois, Monday for retaliation against a public servant or witness.
According to an affidavit The Dispatch obtained from Starkville municipal court, Sullivan threatened to harm a male informant by sending him a direct message on Instagram on July 19. The victim’s name was withheld.
Sullivan was previously arrested for two charges from of sale of less than two grams of cocaine within 1,500 feet of a church, according to Oktibbeha County Circuit Court documents. He also faced a charge of selling psilocybin mushroom within 1,500 feet of a church. The two cocaine charges, according to Sullivan’s indictments, stem from July 16 and Sept. 10 in 2015, while the mushroom charge stems from Aug. 25 of the same year. The church in question was St. Joseph’s Catholic Church on University Drive.
According to the indictments, Sullivan sold the drugs in each instance to “an undercover individual.”
Mississippi 16th Circuit Judge Lee Coleman sentenced Sullivan to two concurrent 10-year suspended sentences, a $10,000 fine and five years of probation for the sale of cocaine charges. The sale of mushrooms charge was retired.
Coleman issued Sullivan’s sentence on July 19 — the same day he reportedly threatened the informant.
Sullivan is being held in the Oktibbeha County Jail, according to jail personnel. He has $15,000 bond for the retaliation charge and no bond on the older charges.
Alex Holloway was formerly a reporter with The Dispatch.
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