FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Attn: News Director                                                                       Contact: Chief Eric Higby

August 19, 2011                                                                                                            (815) 562-2131

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On Friday January 21^st at approximately 12:30 a.m., the Rochelle Police Department received a call of a disturbance (loud music) in the 100 block of South 6^th Street. Officers had been advised the music was coming from a vehicle parked in the lot behind 590 1^st Avenue. Upon arrival to the area, responding officers made contact with an individual inside the vehicle. Officers were able to see a firearm inside the vehicle in plain view. At this time officers took the subject, James N. Salazar, 20, of Rochelle, into custody. Mr. Salazar was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon (class 2 felony based on prior convictions), defacing identification marks on a firearm (class 3 felony), and aggravated battery (class 2 felony). He was transported to the Ogle County Jail in lieu of bond.

All parties are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.