PEORIA, Ill. – A Peoria man faces a host of charges following a police chase last week in Farmington, and a state organization says it could have been prevented.
The Illinois Fraternal Order of Police says had a Fulton County judge not let Ryan Kinnamon, 35 of Lewistown, out on a personal recognizance bond earlier this year, Kinnamon wouldn’t allegedly have caused the chase in Bartonville last week.
The chase, the FOP says, started after police spotted Kinnamon leaving a known drug house, and ended when the car slammed into a tree, injuring him and a female passenger.
While Kinnamon is jailed in Peoria County on a host of speeding and traffic-related charges, court records indicate he has yet to be charged with any felony drug counts. Peoria County Jail records indicate on the drug charges, he was given Notices to Appear in Court, likely because of the Department of Corrections hold indicating he needs to go back to prison.
Kinnamon was charged earlier this year in Fulton County with Class-1 Residential Burglary, but is slated to go back to prison to finish serving time on another felony meth charge from Fulton County, or which he was convicted in 2020. No current court records in Fulton County indicate any felony drug charges for Kinnamon. A pre-trial conference was scheduled for Monday morning in Fulton County Circuit Court in Lewistown. A review hearing is scheduled for October 28 in the Peoria County case.
“I’m sorry to say ‘we told you so,’ but when Judge [Tom] Ewing let this violent felon out on a personal recognizance bond, the FOP warned that the offender had been given a free pass to commit more violent crimes,” said Donald “Ike” Hackett, president, Illinois FOP Spoon River Valley Lodge 427, in a news release. “We implore the next judge who hears the case to keep this man behind bars before a body count is added to his long list of crimes.”
No comment yet from Bartonville Police. We’ve asked them to confirm details of the case.
