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County faces more legal woes
PEORIA — For the second time in less than four months, a complaint has been filed against Bureau County in the U.S. District Court in Peoria. On June 4, the family and estate of the late Austin Wells, 17, of Dover, filed a civil rights and wrongful death complaint against Bureau County, Sheriff John Thompson and correctional officers Sherry Keefer and Chris Spiegel for the events surrounding Wells’ June 9, 2007, suicide when he was an inmate in the county jail.
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