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Posted on: May 29, 2024

[ARCHIVED] 5/29/24 Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon

(PEORIA, IL) Tuesday, May 28, 2024, at approximately 12:53 p.m. members of the Peoria Police Department’s Special Investigations Division (SID) with the assistance of a License Plate Reader (LPR) located a vehicle that fled from police during a previous traffic stop (#24-10381).
Officers observed the vehicle come to a stop at a business in the 3000 block of N. Wisconsin.
The driver identified as 21-year-old Antonio T. Williams-Harris was observed walking into the business. Officers entered the business taking Williams-Harris into custody without incident and located a loaded handgun on his person.
Williams-Harris was transported to the Peoria Police Department for interviewing purposes and subsequently arrested for Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon.
Williams-Harris 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.
**All suspects and arrestees are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. **

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