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Police Arrest One for Suspected Armed Robbery
FIRST REPORTED 6:30am 4/25/10 A call of shots fired Thursday evening has landed a Peoria teenager in jail charged with a felony offense.

Galesburg Police reports indicate officers were called to the Kiwanis Park area after a call of shots fired came in around 8:20 pm Thursday. Investigators were given an identification of a vehicle that was seen leaving the area at the time, and were directed to the nearby five-hundred block of Iowa Avenue. Several suspects were questioned and later released and not charged.

But officers do say a gun was later found in a home, as was 18-year old Ismiel Gates. Suspected victims told police a man holding a gun approached a car parked at the park, pointed the weapon, and asked for the car's speakers before taking a cell phone, later getting into an altercation.

Gates was later arrested and charged preliminarily with a Class-X felony count of Armed Robbery with a Firearm, and was taken to the Knox County Jail.

A second person was issued a traffic ticket, and the vehicle was impounded.

Court information on Gates is not available.


(Ismiel Gates. Photo from Knox County Sheriffs Department)
04 24 10 by Newsroom
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