PEORIA, Ill. – A Peoria man will go to prison for a few years after pleading guilty to a felony weapons-related charge.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Jacobi Turner-Claudin, 29, was sentenced last week to three and a third years in prison after pleading guilty back in July to a charge of Possession of Firearm Ammunition by a Felon.
He could have received up to 15 years in prison.
Prosecutors say Turner-Claudin was in a car pursued by Peoria Police in April, starting on Griswold, but ended when the car went in to the back yard of a house on North Bourland Avenue. He fled from the car and was found in a creek bed with three cell phones, cannabis baggies, and an extended magazine for a gun that had 12 rounds in it.
Turner-Claudin claimed he had the ammunition because he was planning on purchasing a gun later in the day.
Two others also were arrested that day.
