Restitution levied

Two Eastern students charged with aggravated battery in April received reduced sentences Monday as part of a guilty plea agreement.

Scott W. Street, 23, and Brian P. Golden, 21, pleaded guilty to one count of battery and were ordered to pay $5,998.06 pro rata. The restitution will be divided proportionately between the two for medical expenses of the two men injured in the fight at LaBamba’s Mexican Restaurant April 13.

The restitution will be divided and assigned to both of the victims and also to Unicare Health Insurance of California.

Felony aggravated battery charges were dropped to misdemeanor charges as part of the agreement.

According to circuit court records, Street and Golden were also fined $500 each and sentenced to 24 months probation, in which no alcohol or drugs can be consumed and 40 hours of community service must be completed.

Neither of the men is permitted to enter a facility selling or serving primarily alcoholic beverages for the course of the probation sentence.

The battery charge ensues the men “knowingly and intentionally caused bodily harm” in that they “shoved/struck said defendants.”

The victims of the battery, from Westmont and Lemont, were both hospitalized following the incident.

One victim was treated and released the next day, and the other was admitted overnight for observation and treatment then released April 15.

City editor Carly Mullady can be reached at [email protected].