A 27-year-old Centralia man has been sentenced to a total of seven years in prison after pleading guilty in Marion County Court to aggravated battery of a pregnant person and aggravated battery to a peace officer.
Tyrance Pickens-Hill of North College Street admitted to kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach in an incident last September. He received a four year prison term on that charge. Another three years was added on for aggravated battery to a correctional officer. In that charge, Pickens-Hill is accused of struggling with a correctional officer at the Marion County Jail. He allegedly tried to grab an officer’s taser and punched an officer in the head during an altercation that followed.
Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps said the correctional officers had initially gone to his cell due to behavioral issues.
An unrelated threatening a public official charge was dismissed, along with a companion aggravated domestic battery, domestic battery and two counts of criminal damage to property filed with the aggravated battery to a pregnant person. A second charge of aggravated battery to a correctional officer was also dropped as part of that plea.
After getting out of prison, Pickens-Hill was ordered to serve one year of parole. He will get credit for good time already served in the Marion County Jail.
Pickens-Hill still faces possession of a weapon by a felon, aggravated fleeing police over 21 miles per hour, criminal damage to property and reckless conduct following a high speed police chase in Washington County last November.
