ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 57 years in prison for shooting an Illinois state trooper in the arm in 2019 as the officer was serving a warrant at his home.
Forty-six-year-old Volodymyr Dragan of Wheeling was sentenced Friday by a Cook County judge after being convicted in March of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, and aggravated assault. Prosecutors said he shot a trooper in the arm, causing a non-life-threatening wound, in August 2019 as officers were serving an arrest and search warrant for Dragan.
The warrant included allegations that Dragan pointed a handgun at another state trooper during a traffic stop the same day.
