DECATUR - A 28-year-old Decatur man was acquitted Wednesday by a Macon County Circuit Court jury of a June 19 armed robbery that occurred in the 1200 block of North Jordan Street.

Detrich D. Barbee immediately sought a reduction in the $75,000 bond that has kept him incarcerated in the Macon County Jail since his June 19 arrest. Circuit Judge A.G. Webber IV granted the request and set his new bond at $10,000, which would require posting $1,000 cash bail to be released from jail.

Charges against Barbee of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon were not part of this week's trial. Webber set a hearing for Nov. 3 to determine if a trial on those charges will be held.

Assistant State's Attorney Steven Langhoff said he is reviewing the case and has not decided whether to proceed to trial on the weapons charges.

Decatur police were dispatched to the 1200 block of North Jordan Street at 1:28 a.m. June 19 in reference to shots fired. While officers were enroute, they were informed Wesley Lyons, 27, of Warrensburg had called police to say he had been robbed at gunpoint of $100 by two men in front of the house at 1223 N. Jordan St.

Officers flooded the area and spotted two people running across East Leafland Avenue west of the robbery location.

During his closing argument Wednesday, Langhoff said that after seeing the running figures, police Sgt. Brian Cleary stopped his vehicle and ran down an alley before spotting Barbee trying to get into the back door of a house in the 1400 block of East Condit Street.

Barbee told officers several times that he resided at the house with his mother and grandmother when that was not his residence, Langhoff said. A shotgun like the one carried by one of the robbers was found in the backyard of a house about 200 feet from where Barbee was apprehended at 1:32 a.m., he said.

Officers took Barbee to Lyons, who identified Barbee as one of the men who had robbed him, telling police he was "100 percent sure" because the robber's mask slipped down for a moment, Langhoff said.

Defense attorney Karen Root began her closing argument by telling jurors, "Episodes of CSI look a lot more realistic than what happened in this case."

Root said the robbers' descriptions given to police June 19 varied markedly from those given by Lyons on Tuesday. She said Barbee was the only person police offered Lyons for a street show-up early June 19.

As for Barbee not telling the truth about where he lived, Root said her client knew he had an arrest warrant outstanding for possession of marijuana, so he was trying to elude police he saw in the area shortly before his arrest.

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