12/2/11 – A Fox Lake man was sentenced Thursday morning to 30 months in prison for burglarizing a Town of Calamus home. 39-year-old Chad Knoll had previously pleaded guilty to a felony charge of Burglary as a Party to a Crime and had a felony count of Theft dismissed but read into the record. According to the criminal complaint, 31-year-old Erica Plummer of Beaver Dam drove Knoll to the home and she served as lookout during the August 2010 break-in. Witnesses near the residence identified the two, as did owners of the resale shop where the stolen jewelry was sold. Police spent the days following the burglary trying to track down Knoll but he repeatedly told them that he was out-of-town; he was later apprehended while mowing his lawn. Plummer, who was on probation at the time of her arrest and was prohibited from seeing Knoll, was sentenced in April to two years in prison. She will serve that term at the same time as a five-year prison sentence, for a different burglary, that was imposed in February after her probation was revoked. In addition to two-and-a-half years in prison, Knoll will spend five years on extended supervision and was ordered to pay $4500 in restitution.
