NOTE: Charges are merely an accusation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Police reports
• PRINCEVILLE – Shots were fired at a Princeville-area residence that was the scene of a recent armed standoff. One of the residents told authorities her friends were target shooting on the property.
Illinois State Police and Peoria and Stark county deputies responded about 9 p.m. April 30 to the residence, in the 13900 block of Illinois Route 90. Someone nearby heard more than a dozen shots, according to a Peoria County Sheriff’s Office report.
Law enforcement surrounded the residence and commanded everybody inside to exit with hands raised, but nobody responded. Following a telephone call inside, a woman emerged. She said she thought it was not against the law to target shoot on one’s property.
A lieutenant advised the woman that was not illegal, but the targets were not equipped with bullet-stopping equipment behind them. He also told her it probably wasn’t a good idea to target shoot there for now, given the previous incident.
Brandon March, 40, of Peoria was arrested at that address April 19 following a 13-hour stalemate with law enforcement. He appeared May 14 in Peoria County Circuit Court on charges of domestic battery and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon. A jury trial was scheduled for July 6.
• FARMINGTON – A Farmington woman involved in a disorderly-conduct incident was wanted for a different crime.
Farmington police were summoned shortly before 3:45 p.m. May 2 to the 400 block of W. Fort St. Dominique M. Addison, 23, was arguing with her 26-year-old boyfriend, according to a police report. He decided to leave for a few hours, to defuse things.
Shortly thereafter, a check revealed Addison had an outstanding Fulton County warrant regarding a 2023 domestic-battery case. Police waited with Addison for her boyfriend to return, so he could watch their child. After that, Addison was transported to the Fulton County Jail in Lewistown.
• KICKAPOO – A riding lawnmower being towed on a flatbed trailer caught fire north of Kickapoo.
The incident happened shortly before 3 p.m. May 1 at Princeville-Jubilee and Grange Hall roads, according to a Peoria County Sheriff’s Office report. The Exmark mower sustained severe damage to its seat, tires, electrical system and rear engine bay.
An unspecified vehicle towed the trailer, which sustained apparent minor damage. According to the driver, after the mower was used on a yard that had tall grass, he noticed it was hot and smoking. He used leaf blowers to cool the mower before he departed the job site.
When the driver turned from Princeville-Jubilee Road onto Grange Hall Road, he noticed the mower was engulfed in flames. Dunlap firefighters responded. No damage estimate was available.
• TRIVOLI – A report about someone armed with a knife resulted in a Trivoli man’s arrest.
Tristen T. Servis, 22, was transported to the Peoria County Jail following the incident, which happened about 2:30 a.m. April 28 at a residence in the 18600 block of Illinois Route 116, according to a heavily redacted Peoria County Sheriff’s Office report.
Servis was accused of domestic battery.
• PRINCEVILLE – A 17-year-old Brimfield boy appeared to escape injury from a single-vehicle wreck south of Princeville.
The teenager was driving an eastbound 2018 GMC Denali sport-utility vehicle shortly before 5:45 p.m. April 27 on Parks School Road when at Princeville-Jubilee Road he became distracted by a Bluetooth device on the dashboard, a Peoria County Sheriff’s Office report stated.
After the SUV crossed into the westbound lane, it entered the north-side ditch. The driver overcorrected and the SUV rolled across both lanes and landed in the south-side ditch. Dunlap firefighters evaluated the driver and released him. The SUV was towed.
• ELMWOOD – An Elmwood woman apparently was a victim of identity theft.
The victim, a resident of the 600 block of S. Althea St., reported the situation to the Peoria County Sheriff’s Office shortly before 4:45 p.m. April 27. She said she received a telephone call from a woman from the fraud-investigation department of a credit-card firm.
Someone used the victim’s Social Security number to open an account, according to a sheriff’s-office report. The victim said she hadn’t opened a credit-card account recently. She also said she does not divulge her personal information, particularly over the phone and internet.
• MAQUON – A disturbance at a Maquon residence that involved a Farmington-area woman resulted in no arrests. But the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services was advised.
A Knox County Sheriff’s Office deputy responded shortly before 12:45 a.m. April 26 to the 100 block of East St. A 68-year-old woman reported her 25-year-old daughter-in-law was intoxicated and awakened her four children, whose ages ranged from 8 to infant.
The younger woman’s 31-year-old husband arrived and said he was in a vehicle his wife was driving earlier that night in another county when she drove off the pavement into a ditch. No injuries were reported. They left the scene separately. The suspect’s mother and brother drove her to Maquon.
Eventually, the suspect’s mother returned and left with the suspect and her 6-year-old girl. The other children remained at the Maquon residence. The mother-in-law received a domestic-violence form.
• OAK RUN – The subject of a driving complaint in Oak Run was wanted for failure to appear in court.
Shortly before 5:30 p.m. April 25, a Knox County Sheriff’s Office deputy found Reece J. Dubin, 24, of Davenport, Iowa, sitting on a guardrail atop the Oak Run dam. The vehicle, a 2014 Honda sedan, was parked nearby.
Dubin was uncooperative and questioned the circumstances of the complaint, according to a sheriff’s-office report. A check revealed Dubin was wanted in Knox County regarding a traffic citation. After Dubin was taken into custody, his father arrived at the scene and became argumentative.
The younger Dubin was transported to the Knox County Jail in Galesburg.
• GALESBURG – These were among calls to which the Knox County Sheriff’s Office responded between May 3-9: dispute, Yates City; suspicious incident, Dahinda; road hazard, Williamsfield; fire, Dahinda; alarm, Yates City.
• EDWARDS – Shortly before 10:30 p.m. May 3, Chinedu Ugorji of Peoria was driving a southbound 2010 Toyota Camry in the 5000 block of N. Heinz Lane east of Edwards when the vehicle struck a deer. Ugorji said he was uninjured, according to a Peoria County Sheriff’s Office report. The vehicle sustained front bumper and passenger-side damage but was drivable.
• KICKAPOO – At 7:15 a.m. April 30, Shannon L. Tyler of Brimfield was driving an eastbound 2020 Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck on Brimfield-Jubilee Road near Princeville-Jubilee Road north of Kickapoo when the vehicle struck a deer. Tyler wasn’t injured, a Peoria County Sheriff’s Office report stated. The pickup truck sustained significant front-end damage but was drivable.
