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Freeport man gets 7 years for pointing gun at cops

A Freeport man was sentenced to seven years in prison for pointing a loaded handgun at police officers during an early-morning street confrontation, prosecutors said Friday. Frantz Byer, 22, had been convicted in a January jury trial of criminal possession of a weapon and menacing a police officer. The officers "were forced to discharge their service weapons, striking Byer six times in the thigh,...

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