Theft of hat from grave draws prison term

QUINCY -- A woman accused with her mother and boyfriend of taking a sheriff's department hat from the grave of a western Illinois law enforcer has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Twenty-six-year-old Kayla Harris of Quincy pleaded guilty Tuesday in Adams County to theft. She'll also simultaneously serve five years in prison for violating her drug court probation in a methamphetamine case.

Harris' mother and the daughter's boyfriend pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges tied to last month's theft of the hat from Matt McElfresh's grave. It was taken an hour after the Adams County investigator killed in an all-terrain vehicle accident was laid to rest.

An investigator says Harris' mother admitted taking the hat so she could give it to her daughter's boyfriend.