SALINE CO.—One of Saline County’s more notorious little crims has been charged with a serious count that has taken not a few people by surprise.
Xzavier Gibbs, 17, has been charged as an adult in a November 25, 2014 Home Invasion that occurred in Harrisburg.
There, according to the charges, Gibbs, who on court paperwork hails from Harrisburg, but has had varying addresses of Carrier Mills as well as Evansville, Ind., is said to have entered a dwelling place of one Tia Lucio, at the 700 block of West Lincoln Street, and, while armed with a firearm, threatened the imminent use of force against Lucio in that while displaying the firearm, he asked “Where is the weed?”
Apparently Gibbs acted alone as there were no others mentioned in the commission of this alleged act, although most of the little wannabe-thugs in and around Harrisburg usually have a partner in crime.
Gibbs, regular readers will recall, was the young man arrested and charged with the shooting of Bobby Evans, 32, which occurred at year’s-end 2014 on Jackson Street in Harrisburg.
That shooting happened on Sunday, December 28; on Dec. 31, a warrant for Gibbs’ arrest was issued.
Gibbs was picked up in Macon County, Illinois, not long thereafter, on a juvenile parole violation, and brought to IYC in Harrisburg, where he’s firmly ensconced at the present time, apparently, since Disclosure has confirmed that he’s not being held at the Saline County Detention Center.
Sources in January of this year advised that IYC was being kind enough to hold Gibbs for Saline County (as opposed to Saline County racking up a bill for his juvenile-age housing, which will change in November when he turns 18) while his court matters work their way through the system.
There was no word on the official status of the charge against Gibbs in the shooting of Evans; however, an independent source advised that it was believed that the charge that stemmed from that—Aggravated Battery of a Firearm—either was, or will be, dismissed in the wake of the Home Invasion charge.
The new charge is, appropriately enough, a Class “X” felony, carrying with it a lengthy sentence if convicted, as any crime committed in the state of Illinois is enhanced if a weapon, particularly a firearm, is used in the commission of it.
It remains unknown whether Lucio gave up the weed.