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Bond for a Grayslake-area man accused of shooting a dog with one of the many weapons he illegally possessed was reduced to $250,000 Thursday in Lake County circuit court.<\/p>\nBond for a Grayslake-area man accused of shooting a dog with one of the many weapons he illegally possessed was reduced to $250,000 Thursday in Lake County circuit court.<\/p>\n
Elvin Dooley, 57, was arrested last week and charged with shooting a black chow mix dog that had apparently been dropped off at the Save-A-Pet No Kill Adoption Center near his home in the 24000 block of Townline Road.<\/p>\n
A search of Dooley’s house turned up thousands of rounds of ammunition, and he later led police to 21 rifles and handguns he said he owned but had moved to a friend’s house. <\/span><\/p>\n Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Mermel said Dooley has at least one felony conviction, for a 1974 burglary in Alabama, but that earlier indications of a second burglary conviction from 1996 in West Virginia had not been verified.<\/p>\n He is charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and aggravated cruelty to animals. His bond was originally set at $400,000.<\/p>\n Assistant Public Defender Sharmilla Manek asked Associate Judge Christopher Stride to release Dooley on a signature bond.<\/p>\n Manek said Dooley is a longtime resident of the area who does not pose a danger to the community, especially in light of the fact that police have taken all his weapons.<\/p>\n Mermel said he believed the bond should be increased for “someone so out of control as to be firing a weapon in a semi-residential area,” but did not cite a specific amount he was seeking.<\/p>\n Stride set the $250,000 figure and ordered Dooley to appear in court again Feb. 25.<\/p>\n He faces up to seven years in prison if convicted of the weapons charge and up to three years on the cruelty charge.<\/p>\n Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bond for a Grayslake-area man accused of shooting a dog with one of the many weapons he illegally possessed was reduced to $250,000 Thursday in Lake County circuit court. Elvin Dooley, 57, was arrested last week and charged with shooting a black chow mix dog that had apparently been dropped off at the Save-A-Pet No […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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