Teh One Who Knocks
03-24-2016, 11:37 AM
By Michael Smothers - Pekin Daily Times
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A man will appear in court Thursday after he alarmed customers in a Broadway Street store with what appeared to be a handgun in his waistband Tuesday, police said.
The weapon was an air-powered pellet gun that Anthony Betson, 30, did not pull out in the Dollar General store at 1101 Broadway. He left and returned to a car that police, alerted by the store, pulled over in the 700 block of Broadway.
The officer found an older woman, apparently Betson’s grandmother, driving and Betson “laying down” in a fully-reclined passenger seat, said police Public Information Officer Mike Eeten.
The gun was recovered, along with a syringe containing meth in Betson’s pocket and an unspecified amount of heroin in the car, Eeten said.
A child waiting in his mother’s car outside the store while she shopped saw Betson approach, put the gun in his waistband and pull a sweatshirt hood over his head before he entered the store, Eeten said.
“You can imagine what people thought” inside the store when they saw Betson, he said.
He was booked into jail on charges of possessing a controlled substance and drug equipment and disorderly conduct. Formal charges are expected in his bonding court appearance.
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A man will appear in court Thursday after he alarmed customers in a Broadway Street store with what appeared to be a handgun in his waistband Tuesday, police said.
The weapon was an air-powered pellet gun that Anthony Betson, 30, did not pull out in the Dollar General store at 1101 Broadway. He left and returned to a car that police, alerted by the store, pulled over in the 700 block of Broadway.
The officer found an older woman, apparently Betson’s grandmother, driving and Betson “laying down” in a fully-reclined passenger seat, said police Public Information Officer Mike Eeten.
The gun was recovered, along with a syringe containing meth in Betson’s pocket and an unspecified amount of heroin in the car, Eeten said.
A child waiting in his mother’s car outside the store while she shopped saw Betson approach, put the gun in his waistband and pull a sweatshirt hood over his head before he entered the store, Eeten said.
“You can imagine what people thought” inside the store when they saw Betson, he said.
He was booked into jail on charges of possessing a controlled substance and drug equipment and disorderly conduct. Formal charges are expected in his bonding court appearance.