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Posted on: May 27, 2025

[ARCHIVED] Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon

(PEORIA, IL) Monday, May 26, 2025, at approximately 11:02 a.m., Peoria Police were dispatched to the 2400 block of N. Gale Avenue on a report of an armed male sitting inside a parked vehicle.

When police arrived, they approached the vehicle and made contact with the male identified as 34-year-old Dustin S. Miller.

During a search of the vehicle, police located a fully loaded semi-automatic shotgun with a 12-gauge magazine inside.

Miller was taken into custody and subsequently arrested for Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon, No FOID, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

He was 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.

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