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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Settlement Deal Offered in Civil Case For Deadly Melissa Lech Hit & Run

The civil case against a Naperville man who allegedly ran down a young woman from Joliet and then fled, leaving her to die, has a settlement agreement on the table.

The family of a 20-year-old Joliet woman left for dead on the side of McDonough Street has offered to settle a wrongful death lawsuit for $250,000. The settlement deal calls for attorneys representing the estate of University of Illinois student Melissa Lech to get $84,325.09 of the settlement. Half of the remaining $165,674.91 will go to Lech's mother, Maria Lech. Melissa Lech's two sisters, Monica and Michelle Lech, would split $82,837.45, according to court papers. Melissa Lech, a Plainfield South High School graduate, was run down on McDonough Street in August 2008. On the night of her death, she drank on the way up to a White Sox game, continued drinking at the game and on the way back to Joliet, and then headed to the Jefferson …

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Coal City Woman in Channahon Killer Crash Can't Get Bond Dropped

Tiffany Unland was taken to court in a wheelchair and cried after the judge didn't reduce her bond.

The Coal City woman charged with killing a Palatine man in a drunken crash tried for a second time to get her bond lowered. Tiffany Unland, 30, was rolled into court in a wheelchair but stood up in front of Judge Richard Schoenstedt when her attorney asked to have her bond lowered from $120,000 to $50,000 during a Tuesday morning hearing. Schoenstedt wouldn't budge, sending Unland back to jail where she is being held on charges of aggravated driving under the influence. Unland's bond had already been reduced from $200,000. After Schoenstedt broke the bad news about not going any lower, Unland started crying while speaking with her lawyer, Elizabeth Johnson. Unland allegedly killed 46-year-old Anthony B. Calhoun in an Aug. 31 head-on …

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