PEORIA, Ill. – A Peoria man has been sentenced on a weapons offense from earlier this year.
The Peoria County State’s Attorney’s Office says 22-year-old Zavon Knox was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Wednesday after a plea agreement on an Unlawful Use of Weapon charge.
Knox was one of three people charged in an incident at the North Valley Stop N Save in January after officers attempted an investigative stop on a group of males who fled.
Prosecutors say Knox threw a handgun into the store’s dumpster before running away, and later recovered and found loaded with an extended magazine, as well as an auto sear that made it a fully automatic weapon.
17-year-old Kentrell Joiner will be sentenced in December for the same incident, after pleading guilty in September. Joiner was found hiding behind a garbage can at a house on the 400-block of Morgan, with a loaded gun with an extended magazine and auto sear recovered in his hiding spot.
A case against the third defendant, Zarion Harris, is pending. Prosecutors say Harris was taken into custody inside the store after fleeing inside it. He allegedly hid a gun with an extended magazine on a shelf.
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