Absent man gets 20-year prison term
URBANA – An Urbana man with a history of selling cocaine in Urbana was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Shamere Douglas, 20, whose last known address was in the 100 block of South Dodson Drive, did not show up for his sentencing hearing before Champaign County Judge Heidi Ladd.
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