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

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