Man who shoved Cape Girardeau officer sentenced to 30 days in jail

A Tamms, Ill., man who shoved and threatened a Cape Girardeau police officer last fall will spend 30 days in jail, Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle announced.

Swingle said Brandon T. Jeffers, 23, was sentenced to the jail time Thursday by Associate Circuit Judge Gary Kamp. Jeffers pleaded guilty to third-degree assault of a law enforcement officer for shoving patrolman Joseph Hann Sept. 27 after Hann had shot Jordan T. Modicue outside the Main Street Bar, 701 N. Main St. Modicue was holding a air-powered pistol he refused to drop when confronted by officers. Swingle had ruled that Hann's actions were justified after reviewing an investigation by the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Jeffers was identified from a photo taken by a Southeast Missourian photographer. Kamp sentenced Jeffers to one year in jail but suspended the sentence and ordered him to serve 30 days in jail and spend two years on probation. The jail sentence was an important part of the sentence, Swingle said.

"I wanted to send a message that if you touch an officer in anger you go to jail."

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