PEORIA, Ill. – An Edwards man has been arrested after being tied to a burglary last weekend at a Peoria smoke shop.
Peoria Police were called just before midnight Saturday to the VIP Smoke Shop on N. Sheridan Road, near W. Lake, after a burglar alarm went off.
Officers said the glass front door was shattered and broken out.
A short time later, police arrested 56-year-old James Ernst Jr. on W. Willow Lane, a few blocks from the store.
Ernst Jr. was arrested for Burglary and taken to the Peoria County Jail.
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