Crime & Safety
Judge Hands Down Prison Time for Driver in Crash that Killed St. Charles Man
Prosecutors say Reginald Hearon, 51, of Plano, combined prescription drugs and alcohol before crash.
A 51-year-old Plano man was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison for a 2008 crash that killed a St. Charles man.
Reginald Hearon, of the 3500 block of Boyer Lane in Plano, pleaded guilty in September 2010 to reckless homicide and aggravated DUI.
say Hearon was driving a 1997 Ford Ecoline van east in the morning of Oct. 2, 2008, in Blackberry Township when he tried to pass vehicles in a no-passing zone, striking a SUV driven by 53-year-old Craig Smith of St. Charles head on. Smith died at the site of crash.
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Hearon admitted to taking prescription drugs while he had been drinking alcohol, according to prosecutors.
Police determined Hearon’s van was traveling faster than the 45-mph limit for that stretch of Fabyan Parkway just prior to the crash, according to a reconstruction.
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Hearon is required to serve at least 85 percent of the three-year sentence, according to Illinois law. He was given credit for serving 17 days in jail and had been free on bond until that was revoked with the sentencing.
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