PEORIA, Ill. – Some potentially scary moments Monday at a Peoria car rental business, after an employee thought a gun was found in a returned rental car.
Peoria County Sheriffs Deputies say an employee of Avis at the Peoria International Airport went to clean out a recently-returned rental car Monday just before 10:00 a.m., and discovered what looked like a gun in the back seat.
A Crime Lab deputy responded, and determined the weapon was instead a BB gun.
No arrests have been made, but the incident comes as deputies investigate a string of rental car thefts in recent weeks at PIA.
