GALLATIN CO.— A Harrisburg repeat drunk driver, recently out of prison for DUI, could be headed back if convicted in Gallatin County.
The criminal history of Johnathan Cody Lightner, 31, of 1400 Butler Rd., Harrisburg, is filled with alcohol-related convictions, and it appears those convictions have taught Lightner not much of anything.
He was convicted in Saline County on May 4, 2007 of Unlawful Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol which earned him a sentence of court supervision for 12 months, an order to obtain alcohol treatment and was ordered to pay $3,098 of fines and fees.
He got out of a Saline County DUI Drugs charge January 12, 2009 when he was allowed to plead to an amended charge of Reckless Driving, which cost him another $2,335 in fines and fees.
Lightner was convicted in Saline on February 9, 2010 of yet another amended count of Reckless Driving, instead of DUI and sentenced to probation for 12 months and ordered to pay $2,901 in fines and fees, of which he still owes $1,196.
An Aggravated Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol conviction out of Saline County October 18, 2012 earned Lightner an Illinois Department of Corrections sentence of four years and $2,800 in fines and fees.
And clearly learning little if anything from all those meals behind bars, Lightner has now been charged in Gallatin County with two counts of Aggravated Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol when on October 15, 2016 he was found driving a blue 2005 Chevrolet on Galt Avenue in Shawneetown, while under the influence of alcohol and at a time when his license had been revoked following a 2012 conviction in Williamson County for Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol.
Lightner was also cited for Illegal Transportation and Disobeying a Stop Sign.
On those citations he claims an address of 235 City Park Dr., Ridgway.
Cash bond in the case was set at $5,000.