SALINE CO. – A young Harrisburg man who has been very vocal about his drug use in the recent past has found himself once again hemmed up on serious criminal charges.
Despite what Kently J.C. Nowakowski, 30, may have been trying to say in a letter to the editor about a year ago in this very publication, Saline County authorities are doing a “not so fast” caution on it, since he’s been picked up on charges that will likely send him back to prison (if they haven’t already), both of them regarding weapons.
Court documents show that on August 3, 2017, authorities accused Nowakowski of being in Unlawful Possession of a Weapon by a Felon when, when, having been previously convicted of the offense of Possession of Meth Precursor, he knowingly possessed a Ruger Police Single Six revolver, something he can’t do because he’s been convicted of a Class 2 felony in Saline.
On the same day, he was also charged with possessing six rounds of 357 ammunition, with the same terms; both charges carry an Enhanced Sentence.
Interestingly, there is no narrative provided in the most recent case, which was filed Aug. 11; that’s an unusual situation for Saline County, and has lead many to speculate that there’s a little more to the case than what initially appears.
Nowakowski had been in prison a year ago when he penned letters to Disclosure, sentenced after a 2014 incident in Harrisburg which amounted to an attack on an area nark, Jason Grotberg, at his home near the city park.
Grotberg also happens to have been the target of the late Jesse Davidson, the man who hung himself in his home near the park in July, this following arrests of Davidson and his wife, Kristen Lewis, with whom Nowakowski was formerly involved…and who happened to have been present in 2014 when Grotberg was beaten up by Nowakowski.
Nowakowski, in his letters last year, sought to distance himself from Lewis and he also extolled the virtues of his “future wife,” Amber Burnett.
So far, it appears that Nowakowski and Burnett never really hooked up (it appears to have been a hug-a-thug relationship, which plenty of crims engaged in as they’re “safe” and don’t require a lot of effort except letter-writing and phone calls); however, in June, Burnett was busted in White County on a shoplifting charge. And as of press time, former paramour Lewis remained under charges of Attempted Murder and Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm into an Occupied Vehicle from the June incident that sent Davidson into a tailspin and likely lead to his suicide.
Davidson was set for a hearing the day after street date for this issue, August 24.
Nowakowski, who was only just paroled from IDOC on March 2017, is still under terms of parole and there’s probably not a lot of hope for him where that’s concerned; he’ll likely learn how many more years he’ll be spending with large hairy men on August 31, which is his next hearing date.