Cocaine dealer & sex offender shot at with AK-47

SALINE CO.— In an ever-more-increasingly violent environment in and around Saline County, authorities are taking seriously a report from a cocaine convict that he and his sex offender friend were abducted at Sahara Lake, beaten, sexually assaulted and dumped in a local cemetery.

Lured out by Alyse…? 

According to police sources, Saline County 911 received a call October 7, 2015 at approximately 3:37 a.m. from coke convict James Edward Hayes, 33, of 210 West Lincoln St., Harrisburg, reporting that he and his friend, sex offender Michael Lee Irvin, 35, who is said to live with Hayes, were out at Sahara Lake with two girls identified as Leslie “Alyse” Williams and ShaNae Redd Thomas.

According to Hayes, he had been contacted by Williams through Facebook on or about Oct. 2, 2015.

Hayes said that Williams expressed an interest in meeting with him.

What exactly Williams wanted to meet Hayes for is unclear.

Opens fire with AK

At any rate, Hayes said that he and Irvin were standing outside his car, parked at Sahara Lake, waiting for Williams to show, when a blue Chrysler 300 passenger car, owned and driven by a David Riley, pulled into the parking lot.

Hayes said within seconds of the Chrysler arriving and a Stavon Riley (relationship to David Riley, if any, unclear) opened fire with an AK-47 from inside the Chrysler at him and Irvin.

At that point Hayes said he and Irvin jumped back into Hayes’ car and subsequently drove the vehicle into the lake in an attempt to get away from the rounds blasting at them out of the assault rifle.

Forced in trunk at gunpoint

At some point the gunfire stopped and Hayes said he and Irvin were forced out of the water at gunpoint and forced to get into the trunk of the Chrysler.

Hayes said he and Irvin remained locked in the trunk of the car as it was driven, he presumed, away from the Sahara Lake area.

After several minutes, the Chrysler stopped and Hayes said he and Irvin were forced out of the trunk, presumably at gunpoint, and into David Riley’s residence, located at 227 East Washington St., Carrier Mills.

Once inside Riley’s house, Hayes said there was a tarp spread out on the living room floor.

He said that gray pillowcases were then placed over his and Irvin’s heads and that they were forced to lie down on the tarp.

Beaten and sexually assaulted

At that point Hayes said that he and Irvin were then beaten with baseball bats and struck with a rifle butt.

He also said that that, while lying on the floor with the pillowcases over their heads, the assailants shoved knives into both his and Irvin’s rectums.

Hayes reported that the assailants removed his wallet from his pants and took his iPhone.

Irvin also reported that $37 was taken from him along with his ZTE Straighttalk cellphone.

How long the beating and sexual assault went on is unclear.

Dumped in cemetery

Hayes said once the beating and assault stopped, the pillowcases were removed and the assailants duct-taped his and Irvin’s hands and faces, and placed the pillowcases back over their heads.

He said that he and Irvin were then placed into the back of a small, black sport utility vehicle and driven away from Riley’s residence.

Hayes said the when the vehicle stopped, he and Irvin were released.

Once they got the pillowcases and duct tape removed, Hayes said they found themselves in the Harrisburg Sunset Lawn Cemetery.

Search warrant snags Williams’ Facebook

According to authorities, the investigation is ongoing and no formal charges have been filed in the case at this time.

Sources have not been able to address whether or not Hayes or Irvin received treatment at a local hospital for their injuries following the sexual assault with the knives.

There was also no mention by sources as to whether or not Williams or Thomas were present at Sahara Lake during the gunfire and abduction, Riley’s residence during the beating and sexual assault, or were present for the drive to Sunset Lawn Cemetery.

However, a search warrant was signed by Judge Todd Lambert December 10, 2015 at 2:55 p.m.

Sources indicate that as of December 29, 2015, authorities are now in possession of a 1,257-page document generated subsequent to the search warrant being executed on Alyse Williams’ Facbook page, which covers all activity from October 1, 2015 to late December 2015.

Leslie “Alyse” Williams

Alyse Williams, now all of 18, now of Harrisburg, formerly of Cave-In-Rock, rose to the top of the Hardin County crap heap in early 2012 when she and another HC miscreant, Madison Hirsch, developed what they dubbed as a “Kill List.”

The reported plan at the time was to lure certain individuals to the San Damiano retreat outside Golconda, and push victims off the cliffs to their deaths.

For her part in the serial murder plan, Williams was tossed out of Hardin County and into Harrisburg’s alternative school.

When she returned to the Hardin County School the next year (2013-14) she continued bad acts including a viciously violent attack on a fellow student in the parking lot of the school that was videotaped and made its way around the internet, specifically, YouTube.

Williams’ junior high and high and school days in Hardin County have been dubbed by some as a mini reign of terror perpetrated by what appears to be a deeply disturbed young woman, the wonder of which is actually no wonder, considering her mother is the repugnant Tina C. Williams, about whom this publication has written more frequently than we might have liked.

Williams’ high-speed chase in Kentucky

In her apparent ever-increasing spiral into crime, Williams was arrested in the early morning hours of Friday, May 1, 2015, along with Tony Patrick, 30, of an undisclosed town in Alabama, after a high-speed chase resulted in a traffic stop on a Kentucky interstate.

The chase started just before 3 a.m. on the morning of May 1 when the Marshall County, Kentucky, sheriff’s department was contacted by McCracken County, Kentucky, to be advised that a state trooper was attempting to stop a car moving at speeds near 100 mph on Interstate 24.

At that point, a Marshall County deputy saw the car take an exit off I-24 and on to the Purchase Parkway, and joined the KSP trooper in the chase…which at that point was reaching speeds in excess of 120 mph, weaving in and out of traffic and going around other vehicles.

Drugs and money found

Police vehicles closed in on the car and one was able to do the “PIT” maneuver (precision immobilization technique) on it, which involves a law enforcement car “tapping” the bumper of the fleeing car, causing it to go out of control, and the vehicle was finally stopped at exit 27 on the interstate.

After police pulled the two from the vehicle, they searched it and located marijuana, a plastic baggie full of a white powdery substance that field-tested positive for meth, and a “large sum of money,” the exact amount undisclosed.

Williams was charged with Fleeing or Evading Police, Wanton Endangerment, Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance, Unlawful Possession of Marijuana, and Failure to Maintain Required Insurance on a vehicle.

James Hayes, coke dealer

Hayes has his own criminal history.

He was arrested June 2, 2003 and charged with two counts of Manufacture/Delivery of Cocaine.

He was convicted on one of the counts and ultimately sentenced to 182 days in the county jail, probation for 36 months and ordered to pay $4,534.75 in fines and fees.

As part of the plea deal in that case one count of Manufacture/Delivery of Cocaine, filed May 30, 2003 was dismissed.

Currently Hayes has a pending 2014 felony case in Saline County in which he is charged with two counts of Intimidation after authorities say he attempted to extort money from a former girlfriend over nude photos she had sent him.

The first count alleges that he threatened to send “lewd” photos the woman to her family and the second count alleges that he threatened to show “lewd” photos her husband if she didn’t leave him.

Hayes is currently out on bond in that case after $2,000 cash was posted on his behalf by Taylor Patterson of East Church St., Galatia. Patterson later became his babymamma, and went to live with Hayes and his still-current wife, who was shot in the leg in an incident of carelessness when someone left a handgun laying around the Hayes household (located next door to a licensed daycare) and a 6-year-old child picked it up and shot off rounds, injuring himself as well.

Michael Irvin, convicted sex offender

Irvin was the subject of a manhunt in Saline February of 2013 after a local woman was raped.

Details of the incident alleged that Irvin had caught his girlfriend in Harrisburg with another man and so he and three other men went after both the girlfriend and the man she was allegedly with.

Irvin and his three buddies were accused of beating both the girlfriend and the other man badly, causing serious injuries including facial fractures.

The woman was reportedly viciously sodomized with broomsticks.

Irvin was ultimately charged with Home Invasion Involving a Sex Offense, Aggravated Sexual Assault Causing Bodily Harm, Aggravated Domestic Battery with Strangulation and Aggravated Battery Causing Great Bodily Harm.

Convicted on the battery charges, Irvin was sentenced to the Illinois Department of Corrections for four years and ordered to pay $802.10, of which he has paid not a dime.

How bizarre…

Given Williams’ increasing criminal proclivities, it is not known if the Sahara Lake incident was drug-related or not.

Given Irvin’s status as a sex offender (and a recalcitrant one, at that), it is not known if the Sahara Lake incident was revenge-related or not.

Given Hayes’ propensity toward every form of bad act imaginable, it is not known if the Sahara Lake incident was merely generated by disgust at the fact that Hayes is still taking in oxygen.

No one seems to know much about the dubiously-named ShaNae Redd Thomas.

However, the investigation continues, and, if it holds true to form for Saline County, the real reason for the whole sordid situation is probably more bizarre than anyone has yet come up with a theory for at even this point.