The Weekly Post public record for 5-23-24

NOTE: Charges are merely an accusation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Police reports
• HANNA CITY – A suspect in the slaying of a former Peoria High School basketball player was apprehended in Hanna City.

Messiah Z. Carpenter, 20, was accused of first-degree murder regarding the death of MikeQuese Taylor. He was shot and killed April 30 near Forrest Hill and Knoxville avenues in Peoria.

About 6:15 a.m. May 14, law-enforcement authorities searched a residence in the 500 block of N. Main St. in Hanna City. There they found Carpenter, who without incident was taken into custody, according to the Peoria Police Department. It wasn’t clear if Carpenter resided there.

Peoria police coordinated with the Peoria County Sheriff’s Office and the Central Illinois Emergency Response team in pursuit of Carpenter.

• HANNA CITY – A Hanna City woman who admitted to pepper-spraying her boyfriend said his witchcraft-dabbling mother put a spell on her.


• TRIVOLI – A Trivoli man was accused of attacking a woman at a local residence.

Peoria County Sheriff’s Office deputies were summoned about 3 p.m. May 11 to the 18600 block of Illinois Route 116. Chad B. Pyatt, 52, was arrested there, according to a heavily redacted sheriff’s-office report.

In addition to the woman, there was another possible victim, a male. There also was a female witness, the report stated. Deputies retrieved a Remington shotgun from the residence.

Pyatt appeared in court May 13 on a charge of domestic battery. He was released from custody by court order, according to Peoria County Jail records. The Peoria County State’s Attorney’s Office did not file with the court an additional initial charge of assault.

• PEORIA – An Edwards woman required a hospital visit following a two-vehicle accident northwest of Peoria.

Shortly after 4:30 p.m. May 10, Dory Y. Gebrayel was driving a 2012 Honda sport-utility vehicle east on Alta Lane at Illinois Route 91 when a 2017 Volkswagen Turbo struck the SUV, per a Peoria County Sheriff’s Office report. Maria G. Hands of Peoria was the other driver.

Hands was headed west on Alta Lane and attempting a turn onto southbound Route 91 when her vehicle collided with the front of the SUV, the report stated.

An ambulance transported Gebrayel to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, where she was checked for apparent neck injuries. Hands sustained minor chest, knee and hand pain and was transported to Carle Health Proctor Hospital. Both vehicles sustained front-end damage and were towed.

• TRIVOLI – A single-vehicle accident in Trivoli resulted in an Edwards man requiring hospital treatment.

Zachary A. Dearing was driving a westbound 2003 Mazda Protégé about 9:30 a.m. April 29 in the 18400 block of Illinois Route 116 when he apparently suffered a seizure, a Peoria County Sheriff’s Office report stated. His vehicle left the roadway to the north.

Dearing said he was uninjured, but an ambulance transported him to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria for observation. Another vehicle left behind large tire tracks in the field as it pulled Dearing’s vehicle back onto the road.

• YATES CITY – Someone damaged a residential garage during an attempted burglary in Yates City, according to authorities.
The property owner, an Elmwood woman, reported the incident about 8:30 p.m. April 29, according to a Knox County Sheriff’s Office report. The perpetrator removed a cinder block and smashed off a doorknob.

Restaurant equipment is stored in the garage, the victim said. The adjacent house is empty. Its doors were unlocked, and nothing was damaged or missing. Nobody was found inside.

• DOUGLAS – A pair of dogs attacked another dog on a street in Douglas.

The incident happened about 2 p.m. April 14, a Knox County Sheriff’s Office report stated. A 21-year-old woman was walking her Miniature Australian Shepherd in the 1800 block of S. Depot St. when two unleashed Pitbull mixes, a male and a female, emerged from a residential property and bit her dog.

According to the report, the woman then spoke without incident with the dogs’ owner, a 60-year-old man. Her dog was treated at a Peoria veterinary clinic. No puncture wounds were found. A deputy was unable to contact the owner of the other dogs.

• HANNA CITY – Shortly before 10:30 p.m. May 3, Katie L. Sauder of Peoria Heights was driving an eastbound 2011 Buick Lucerne in the 10300 block of Illinois Route 116 east of Hanna City when the vehicle struck a deer that emerged from the north. Sauder and her two passengers declined medical attention, a Peoria County Sheriff’s Office report stated.

Sauder’s vehicle sustained disabling damage to its front hood and bumper and was towed. The impact killed the deer.

• KNOXVILLE – At 9:15 p.m. April 29, Rebecca T. Doubet, 47, of Williamsfield was driving an eastbound 2012 Buick LaCrosse in the 1000 block of U.S. Route 150 east of Knoxville when the vehicle struck a deer, according to a Knox County Sheriff’s Office report. Neither Doubet nor her passenger, a 57-year-old Williamsfield woman, reported injuries. The vehicle was drivable.

• DAHINDA – About 9:30 p.m. April 23, Sylvia D. Campbell, 53, of Galesburg was driving a 2012 Chevrolet Camaro west on Interstate 74 south of Dahinda when the front driver’s side of her vehicle struck a deer. Campell and her passenger, a 38-year-old man from Galesburg, reported no injuries, according to a Knox County Sheriff’s Office report. The vehicle sustained significant front-end damage and was towed.

• HANNA CITY – Troy J. Morton, 57, of Hanna City was arrested at 9:45 a.m. May 16 and accused of driving on a revoked license, according to the Peoria County Sheriff’s Office.

• HANNA CITY – Daniel E. Dotzert, 49, of Hanna City was arrested at 11:30 a.m. May 15 and accused of failure to report a crash that resulted in death, according to the Peoria County Sheriff’s Office.

• EDWARDS – Dillon J. Dawson, 30, of Edwards was arrested at 1:30 p.m. May 14 and accused of failure to appear in court, according to the Peoria County Sheriff’s Office.

• LAURA – Zachary D. Robertson, 35, of Laura was arrested shortly before 5:45 p.m. May 13 and accused of criminal trespass to land, according to the Peoria County Sheriff’s Office.

• GALESBURG – These were among calls to which the Knox County Sheriff’s Office responded between May 5-11: gas leak, Dahinda; two other-animal complaints, Williamsfield; theft, Oak Run; two stray dogs, Galva; two road hazards, Dahinda; vehicle fire, Dahinda; suspicious person, Williamsfield; dispute, Yates City; burglary, Dahinda; damage, Williamsfield.