Former deputy DA faces more charges

Just hours after former Deputy District Attorney Steve Hill appeared in Court Wednesday on his drug case, he was arrested on charges of trying to steal his ex-wife's car.

Hill, 32, bailed out of jail a short time later on the charges of attempted grand larceny and tampering with a motor vehicle.

The allegations are the latest problem since the former prosecutor was caught by Metro Police officers a year and a half ago riding in his Corvette with a known prostitute. Two rocks of cocaine were found in the car.

He resigned and pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possessing a controlled substance in a deal that gave him an opportunity to have the charges dismissed -- and keep his law license -- if he completed Drug Court.

But after spending nearly a year and a half in the one-year program, he was kicked out of Drug Court in May after District Judge Jack Lehman determined Hill had submitted a false urine sample for his required drug test. That sample was drug free, but a monitored sample tested positive for cocaine.

At 9 a.m. Wednesday, Hill was told in court that he will be sentenced Sept. 2 on his guilty plea to a felony drug possession charge.

At about 3:30 p.m., according to a Metro Police report, Hill was arrested at the home of his former wife, Lillian Hill, on charges he broke into her 1989 Nissan 240 SX and tried to steal it.

The report states that the right door window was broken and Steven Hill was seen inside the car "hammering at the steering column with some type of device."

The police report said a man with Hill explained they were there to "repossess" the car, but the only available paperwork showed the woman had been given the vehicle as part of the couple's June 1997 divorce.

Although he has been released from jail, Hill's problems likely will escalate. Additional charges are expected to be filed because Lillian Hill had obtained a temporary protective order from a Family Court requiring him to stay away from his former spouse until May 1999.

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