PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A 53-year-old Peoria man was taken to the county jail Wednesday afternoon on a slew of alleged weapons charges, the police department said.
According to Semone Roth, a police spokeswoman, officers stopped the car of Price L. Russell in the 900 block of North Bourland Avenue which is near the Campustown shopping center.
The traffic stop, just before 4 p.m., revealed he had a suspended driver’s license and when officers searched his car, they allegedly found a handgun and a stun gun inside.
Russell was booked on the charges of alleged aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon by a felon, having no valid FOID card and several traffic offenses.
