(PEORIA, IL) Sunday, May 21, 2023, at approximately 12:30 a.m. Peoria Police were conducting a security check in the parking lot of a business in the 400 block of SW Jefferson.
During the
check, officers observed a semi-automatic handgun inside a parked vehicle two adult males just walked away from.
Officers observed one of the subjects walk back to the vehicle and open it with a key fob. Police approached the male subject identified as 33-year-old Terrance Burnside and detained him while officers seized the loaded firearm from inside the vehicle.
Burnside was subsequently arrested for Unlawful Possession of a Weapon by a Felon, Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon and No FOID Card.
He 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. **