CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - The U.S. Attorney's Office announced Monday that Joel Keith Day, 57, of Cape Girardeau was sentenced to almost three years on three felony counts of interstate possession of stolen goods.

Day appeared before U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. and at his plea admitted that on Dec. 4, 2010 he stole a 2011 Ritenouer brand 53 foot aluminum trailer and contents, with a value of about $5,000, from a lot in Mt. Vernon, Ill.

According to the attorney's office, about two weeks later, Day moved the trailer and contents to a storage building he had rented at 12236 Highway 25, in Cape Girardeau County. They say Day then had the trailer cut into pieces and sold as scrap metal.

JONESBORO, IL (KFVS) - Union County State's Attorney Tyler R. Edmonds announced Tuesday that a Jonesboro woman has been sentenced to five years on one count of continuing financial crimes enterprise and one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

Liberty K. Batson, 33, has been sentenced to five years in the Department of Corrections.

Edmonds says Batson was originally charged with continuing financial crimes enterprise in November 2009 after she forged a number of stolen checks. According to Edmonds, she was sentenced to a term of probation on that charge in March 2010.

According to Edmonds, Batson's probation was revoked after she was resentenced Tuesday to a prison term based on her failure to abide by the terms of probation.

(KFVS) - The Illinois Department of Transportation is reminding drivers that one of the most frightening things about Halloween is encountering an impaired driver.

IDOT says if your Halloween celebration includes alcohol, designate a sober driver to get you home safely. They issued the reminder because they say it included data showing the role alcohol has played in traffic deaths during the last seven years in Illinois.

“There isn’t a Halloween costume clever enough to hide a drunk driver who has made the dangerous decision to get behind the wheel,” said Acting Illinois Transportation Secretary Ann Schneider. “Law enforcement will be vigilant this Halloween keeping Illinois roadways safe for everyone.”

According to IDOT, during the last seven years in Illinois, 25 people lost their lives and 2,018 were injured in 7,723 vehicle crashes during Halloween.