To close out March 2025, the former police chief of a southern Illinois town called Wayne City pled guilty to two motorcycle-related charges in federal court. But they may not be what you expect.
The defendant, Anson Fenton, was Wayne City's police chief in 2022 and 2023. According to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Illinois, he was charged with two separate counts. The first was a count of "misapplication of property from federally funded programs," while the second was "interstate transportation of stolen property."
But although that tells you what the charges were, that doesn't tell you what he pleaded guilty to actually doing. That's what the court documents in this case are for!
