Published: July 3, 2021 • Limestone Township supervisors plan to enact, at a public meeting not less than three nor more than 30 days from publication of this notice, an ordinance to.
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POLICE, FIRE REPORTS ON MAY 14, 2021 By John Smathers
May 14, 2021 | 2:38 PM
State Police in Punxsutawney say farm equipment was recently stolen from a residence in Rose Township of Jefferson County.
Troopers say a Farm Disc Tiller was stolen from a Daws Drive residence sometime between May 8 and May 11.
If you have helpful information about this case, State Police in Punxsutawney want to speak with you at 814-938-0510.
Police say no injuries were reported following a structure fire in New Bethlehem early Thursday morning.
Fire crews from Limestone Township, New Bethlehem, Hawthorn and Ringgold were dispatched to the scene around 5:30 am.
Three charged with DUI
One moment Bayli Kurtz was speeding and the next moment the 25-year-old Armstrong Township woman was rolling in her 2012 Ford Focus after the car hit an embankment along Middle Road in Limestone Township about 8:45 p.m. on March 11, according to state police. The vehicle landed upright.
Kurtz, of 45 French Settlement Road, told a state trooper at the scene that she was “not exactly sure what happened,” but she did admit to speeding, court records stated.
The trooper reported Kurtz had “a moderate odor of alcohol” coming from her body. She did admit to having an alcoholic beverage within the last hour, police said.
City man charged in connection with January shooting
As Nichole Gillard and ex-boyfriend Darren Donnell Brown fought with one another in Gillard’s apartment, Brown suddenly fired the gun he had in his hand in close proximity to her head, city police alleged in a court document
Although no one was hurt in the shooting that occurred at the Timberland Apartments, 750 W. Edwin St., on the afternoon of Jan. 9, the gunfire caused Gillard’s ears to ring, police said.
Brown, 30, of 331 Center St., fled the scene before police arrived, but he has since been arrested and taken into custody on felony and misdemeanor charges, including aggravated assault and carrying a firearm without license, police said.
WCBU
A Peoria man has been booked for attempted murder after a man was found shot in his vehicle in a Limestone Township liquor store parking lot.
Peoria County Sheriff Brian Asbell said deputies found a 26-year-old man with several gunshot wounds in a vehicle in the Laramie Liquors parking lot just before 10:45 p.m. Sunday.
The man was taken to OSF St. Francis Medical Center with serious injuries.
Deputies later arrested David Dillard, 25, of Peoria, for attempted murder, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, aggravated discharge of firearm, aggravated batter with firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, and on a parole hold for the Illinois Department of Corrections.