Volume 42 Number 21 Thursday, May 27, 2021 36 Pages | 75¢ Officer shot, suspect killed By Travis Lott ed to stop the bike, which A Red Bud police officer it again did not do. shot and killed a Missouri Buch said the bike man who exchanged gun- passed Lochhead Service fire with officers on the Station at about 60 miles side of the road just west an hour. Buch reported of Red Bud in the early that the bike was swerv- morning hours Sunday. ing in and out of the lane A Red Bud officer also of traffic, and that the suffered a gunshot wound driver turned around to through his calf during look at Buch several times. the altercation. Buch said the bike sped up The shooting was the past Motomart and blew deadly conclusion of an through the intersection at incident that began un- the four-way stop in Ches- folding more than an hour ter. earlier. Buch then lost sight of it According to police, at and deactivated his lights. 12:19 a.m. May 23 a man, Shortly after, the bike later identified as Timothy was again seen heading Snyder, 27, of St. Charles, back north out of Chester, Missouri was spotted rid- being spotted by Randolph ing a motorcycle on State County deputies in vari- Route 3 between Ellis ous locations on Route 3 Grove and Red Bud. The toward Red Bud. The bike motorcycle reportedly had was spotted by Red Bud no taillights. police in Red Bud at 12:42 Randolph County Sher- a.m. before it headed back iff’s Deputy Jonathon Bar- south toward Chester. A bour attempted to stop the Red Bud officer lost sight A state trooper and Randolph County Sheriff Shannon Wolff examine the motorcycle motorcycle, but Snyder did of it in Ruma. and shell casings at the scene of the shooting Sunday morning following the not pull over. As it headed back south removal of Snyder’s body. Inset, Justin Snyder. Mugshot courtesy of St. Charles Co., Missouri Barbour noted that the toward Chester, Deputy Department of Corrections. bike was traveling around Jason Juenger caught the 90 miles per hour, and he report—providing nota- Seth Buch overheard the torcycle to pass. When it motorcycle on radar at the ended pursuit and let Sny- tions of everything that radio traffic about Bar- came by, Buch reported Evansville bridge trave- der go. is broadcast on radio and bour’s attempted stop and that the bike was traveling ling 103 miles per hour. Just after that, at 12:20 reported to police—which pulled into the entrance at a high rate of speed. Barbour again spotted a.m. Chester police began detailed the incident. of Chester Mental Health Buch turned on his emer- a Computer Aided Dispatch Chester police officer Center to wait for the mo- gency lights and attempt- Continued on Page 5_____ GOAT raided, owner charged Fallen soldier’s By Travis Lott “She reported that, after A Sparta businessman is consuming alcohol, she in hot water after what au- felt way out of the ordi- letter found in thorities called an unwant- nary way she would nor- ed touching that allegedly mally feel after consuming occurred at his bar May 15. alcohol,” Kempfer said. Sparta police raided the Kempfer said the woman Oregon mountains GOAT sports bar in the was sent to Sparta Com- Sparta Centre strip mall munity Hospital to be By Travis Lott May 20 after a woman re- tested for any sort of drug Last year, the County ported that she had been she may have been given. Journal printed a large touched inappropriately by Specimens were sent to the feature story on the front the owner of the bar. Illinois State Police Crime page of the July 2 issue detailing the military ser- Sparta Police Chief Sean Horacio Landeros Lab. Lukes said two females Kempfer said she is the vice of a Steeleville man went to the Sparta Police tion. second woman to report to who was killed in action Department May 16 to re- “Whenever you enter a police possible drugging at in World War II in The port the incident. They place and they’re open, you the GOAT. Netherlands. said they had both been at never know how many pa- Kempfer said that a PFC Clyde Sternberg— the bar the previous night. trons will be inside,” Lukes woman filed a report a who served as an Army Police had a search said. couple months ago, telling medic and litter bearer Clyde Sternberg warrant for the bar, and The GOAT has been the police that there was a pe- overseas during the war reviewed video footage subject of public scrutiny riod of time she could not until he was gunned down which, they say, shows lately, with a number of remember after a visit to trying to rescue a fallen comrade in the street dur- Horacio Landeros, 39, of women on social media the GOAT. ing the liberation of Kerkrade October 4, 1944—was Evansville—better known claiming to have been in- Lukes said those claims buried in Hombourg, Belgium. as Flaco—inappropriately appropriately touched or have not been proven. A couple from The Netherlands, Tanja Wirtz and touching one of the fe- that their drinks were “There’s no evidence Patrick Thomas, adopted his grave as a way to rec- male’s buttocks. drugged while there. whatsoever to support that ognize Sternberg’s valor and to thank him for help- When police raided the Assistant Sparta Police right now,” Lukes said. ing liberate their homeland. business, they did so in full Chief Jeremy Kempfer Randolph County States That was that, until an almost unbelievable set of force, with several squad said the friend of the wom- Attorney Jeremy Walker circumstances eventually shed more light on Stern- cars arriving on scene. an who reported being said the claims of drug- berg’s life. Lukes said the large po- touched told police she felt ging are part of this ongo- Ron Lacy of Eagle Point, Oregon was hunting in lice presence was done out as though she may have the mountains of southern Oregon near Prospect about a year and a half ago when he came across of an abundance of cau- been drugged. Continued on Page 5 something interesting. Along a road in the mountains, he found an enve- lope. “It couldn’t have been there very long, because it didn’t look like it had been run over or anything,” said Ron’s wife Lacie Lacy. An ink postmark on the envelope read Rockford, Illinois, August 11, 1943 from Camp Grant, Illinois in Rockford, addressed to Mrs. Clyde Sternberg. Inside, Sternberg wrote to his wife, Daphne Stern- berg, whom he refers to in the letter only as “honey” and “darling.” Daphne, whose maiden name was Miller, was orig- inally from Pinckneyville. He tells Daphne about his training to be an Army medic, carrying stretchers and supplies from trucks. “It was just as if we were behind enemy lines,” Sternberg wrote. “Our job as medical men is to go out on the field to give medical attention to the wounded, then four men with a stretcher will come out and get him. The only drawback is that we nev- er carry a gun.” He wrote about carrying men on stretchers through ditches, over fences, through brush and downhill. He said it gets tiresome. “But still I like that kind of training instead of the classes we have,” Sternberg wrote. He tells Daphne about when she can expect a call from him that Friday, and later in the letter talks Continued on Page 5 ______ Sparta police are shown during the raid at the GOAT May 19. Willis Publishing Inc. © Copyright 2021 MONEY $AVING COUPONS INSIDE! PAGE 2 COUNTY JOURNAL | MAY 27, 2021 All those arrested or ticketed are presumed innocent until POLICE proven guilty in court. Wreck on State Rte. 13 leaves one injured One man was in- southbound on State ward Kampelman, 30, jured in an accident on Route 13 just west of of Chesterfi eld, Mis- State Route 13 Monday Plum Road. souri. morning. State police said Kampelman was tak- According to Illinois Basler, for unknown en to a nearby hospital State Police, a semi reasons, crossed into with unknown inju- truck driven by Jake the northbound lane, ries. Basler, 30, of Jones- striking a northbound Basler was cited for boro, Illinois was vehicle driven by Ed- improper lane usage. P’ville fi re incidents Pinckneyville Fire house caught fi re May into the attic, and the Shown is Aaron Kinstler’s vehicle following the crash on State Route 150. Department was called 21 at 8:49 p.m. at 4612 home sustained smoke to a number of inci- Wood Duck Road. and water damage. dents over the past When fi remen ar- Pinckneyville fi re- week. rived, there was heavy men, assisted by fi re- Two vehicles collide The fi rst occurred smoke coming from men from Du Quoin Two vehicles col- was eastbound on 150 continued approxi- May 20 at 1:12 p.m. the home, and a by- and Nashville, were lided on State Route at 10:44 a.m. when, for mately 450 feet and when a pickup truck stander said the occu- on scene about four 150 at Substation Road an unknown reason, came to rest in a ditch. caught fi re at 4199 pant was still inside. hours. near Steeleville May he crossed the center Smith’s vehicle spun Phlox Road. Two fi remen entered The last incident oc- 22.