(PEORIA, IL) Friday, May 31, 2024, at approximately 11:10 a.m. members of the Peoria Police Department’s Special Investigations Division (SID), observed a wanted subject enter the passenger seat of a vehicle in the 100 block of W. Beverly Court and drive away.
Officers observed the vehicle come to a stop at a business in the 2300 block of N. Knoxville. The wanted male identified as 21-year-old Jyvonnie J. Williams exited the
vehicle and went inside the business where he was apprehended by police without incident.
Officers also made contact with the driver of the vehicle identified as 18-year-old Neziah A. Chambers.
During a search of the vehicle police located a loaded handgun.
Chambers was subsequently arrested for Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm without a valid FOID Card, and Unlawful Possession of a Handgun under 21 Years Old.
Williams was arrested for Domestic Battery for a previous incident.
Both subjects were transported to the Peoria County Jail.
If you have any information regarding any violent crimes, please contact the Peoria Police Department at (309) 673-4521, tip411 (anonymously), or Crime Stoppers (anonymously) at (309) 673-9000.
**All suspects and arrestees are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. **