Man Who Drove Around for Four Days With Man in Trunk Gets 40 Years in Prison
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A Metro East man whose six-day crime spree included driving a man around in a car trunk for four days has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
Twenty-five-year-old Barry Williams of Washington Park was sentenced in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis.
Williams and Larry Gooden pleaded guilty in July and admitted abducting a man at gunpoint from a Cahokia coin laundry in October of last year.
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They held him in the car trunk for four days while forcing him to get cash from ATMs.
After he escaped, they robbed two truck drivers outside a St. Louis restaurant, then kidnapped a woman from a White Castle.
Gooden's sentencing is on hold while he challenges the plea and changes lawyers.