Highland area police briefs for Aug. 1-7

Editor’s note: The following incidents were listed among the official reports of local law enforcement agencies and court clerks. Readers are reminded that an arrest or charge does not constitute a finding of guilt. Only a court of law can make that determination.

Bond County man awaiting murder trial dies

A Bond County man facing a murder charge for the murder of his wife has died.

Prosecutors had charged Bobby E. Robinson, 50, with allegedly using a handgun to shoot his wife, Tiffany Robinson, 46, in the neck while the couple was in their Royal Lake home on Sept. 18, 2015.

Tiffany Robinson died the morning following the shooting.

Bobby Robinson, who had pleaded not guilty to the murder charges and was in custody while awaiting a jury trial, died on July 15 in a Springfield hospital due to an illness.

Greenville man found dead following fire

A Greenville man was found dead Saturday after his caregiver reported a fire around 11 a.m. at his duplex. According to police, the caregiver found Robert L. Soles, 61, on his couch with a small fire burning in the living room. Soles was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy is scheduled, but police said foul play is not suspected. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Clinton County gets 45 years for child pornography

A Clinton County man who admitted to repeatedly sexually abusing a minor over the course of several years and photographing the acts of abuse was sentenced Aug. 2 for child pornography offenses.

Miguel Angel Vasquez Torres, 34, of Beckemeyer, will serve 45 years in prison for production, distribution and receipt of child porn, U.S. Attorney Donald S. Boyce announced.

In May 2015, the FBI received information regarding an individual who was uploading video and image files containing child porn to a Photobucket.com cloud storage account. The Photobucket account belonged to Vasquez Torres, who worked at a Carlyle dairy farm.

In an interview with law enforcement officers, Vasquez Torres admitted the years of abuse of a minor victim, which he photographed. A forensic examination of his phone revealed about 440 images of the sexual abuse.

Vasquez Torres also admitted to downloading and distributing video files containing child porn. Law enforcement found about 22 video files containing child porn on Vasquez Torres’ phone, which he distributed and received using an Internet-based messaging system. One of the videos he downloaded depicted an infant being tortured and sexually abused.

The investigation was conducted by the Madison County Sheriff’s Department, the FBI’s Metro East Cyber Crimes and Analysis Task Force and the Clinton County Sheriff’s Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ali Summers.

Vasquez Torres was ordered to pay a $300 special assessment. He will be on federal supervised release for 10 years after he is released from prison.

HPD misdemeanors, tickets, citations

Aug. 1

▪ No tickets issued.

Aug. 2

▪ Barry J. Hanselman, 54, of Highland was charged with a city nuisance ordinance violation for allegedly having three inoperable vehicles on his property for more than seven days.

Aug. 3

▪ Tyler Heimann, 21, of Highland was charged with driving while having a suspended/revoked license.

Aug. 4

▪ No tickets issued.

Aug. 5

▪ Taylor Michael, 25, of Highland was charged with driving too fast for conditions.

▪ Joshua Wesselmann, 26, of Highland was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.

Aug. 6-7

▪ No tickets issued.

This story was originally published August 19, 2016 at 2:27 PM with the headline "Highland area police briefs for Aug. 1-7."