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Posted on: March 11, 2024

[ARCHIVED] 3/11/24 WOF/Aggravated UUW/Poss. Stolen Handgun

(PEORIA, IL) Friday, March 8, 2024, at approximately 4:23 p.m. members of the Peoria Police Department’s Special Investigations Division (SID) located two wanted subjects in the 200 block of N. MacArthur.
The wanted subjects, identified as an 18-year-old male and a 17-year-old male, were taken into custody without incident. Both were transported to the Peoria Police Department for interviewing purposes.
The 17-year-old male was subsequently arrested for an active warrant.
The 18-year-old male was arrested for various firearm charges related to incident (# 24-3439), and an active warrant. The 18-year-old male’s name will not be released due to the warrant and criminal offenses occurring while he was still a juvenile.
Both subjects were transported to the Juvenile Detention Center.
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. **

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