Ottawa man arrested on robbery, domestic battery charges

A 32-year-old Ottawa man was arrested Thursday in connection with robbery and domestic battery charges stemming from an Ottawa police investigation in October.

Dezzan D. Phillips was arrested in the 100 block of West Madison Street in Ottawa by the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force from the La Salle County Sheriff’s Office.

Phillips was taken to the La Salle County Jail, where he is being held with no bond pending a detention hearing.

Phillips was sentenced to prison in May 2018 for causing the death of 28-year-old Nicholas Puyear of Peru in a confrontation Nov. 10, 2017, in La Salle.

During his May 2018 sentencing hearing, Phillips said: “I’ve done a lot of wrong in my life, but I want to be a changed man. La Salle County has brought so much harm to me. I’d like to never see La Salle County again.”