WILLIAMSON COUNTY — A Chicago man was sentenced Tuesday in Williamson County Court to a total of 14 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections on charges stemming from an incident with police earlier this year in Marion.

Williamson County State’s Attorney Brandon Zanotti says 34-year-old Alan L. Shields was found guilty by a Williamson County Jury on June 6 on one count of aggravated battery to a police officer, one count of threatening a public official and one count of aggravated battery to a correctional officer stemming from a February 2018 arrest in Marion.

Back in February, Marion police officers responded to a disturbance involving Shields. Shields was placed under arrest for an active warrant out of Jackson County, and a struggle ensued where Shields spit on one of the arresting officers. Direct threats were also made to officers during his transport to jail, where Shields bit one of the correctional officers, causing an injury that required stitches.

The judge sentenced Shields to five years for threatening a public official, a class 3 felony, and seven years for aggravated battery to a police officer, a class 2 felony, to run concurrently; and another seven years for aggravated battery to a correctional officer, a class 2 felony, to run consecutively to the other sentence.

Shields has a criminal history, including a 2004 conviction for aggravated vehicle hijacking with a weapon out of Cook County.