A Wonder Lake man has pleaded guilty to attacking another man after learning his home was in foreclosure, though in a letter he wrote he does not remember what happened because he “blacked out.”
Ruben Meneses Jr., 44, pleaded guilty earlier this month to aggravated battery, a Class 3 felony, and was sentenced to 3½ years in prison, according to the judgment order filed in McHenry County court. In a separate case from 2023, he pleaded guilty to violating the sex offender registry laws. A third case of aggravated battery was dismissed, court documents show.
Meneses is required to serve half his sentence. After he will be on six months of mandatory supervised release. He will get credit toward his prison term of 255 days in the county jail, plus an additional 22 days of credit, half a day credit for each day spent working, volunteering or participating in self-help programs. While in jail Meneses participated in parenting classes, the judgment order said…