Items tagged: Special Weapons and Tactics Team

Champaign Police Arrest Four Individuals for Weapon and Drug Offenses

During the early morning hours of Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, the Street Crimes Task Force, with assistance from Champaign Police and the Champaign Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT), served a search warrant in the 1200 block of West Bradley Avenue leading to the arrest of four individuals. Several firearms and narcotics were seized during […]


SWAT Deployed to an Armed Subject Barricaded in a Private Residence

On Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, at approximately 10:15 p.m., Champaign Police responded to the 2500 block of West Springfield Avenue for a report of domestic battery by an armed male subject, who is identified as 25-year-old Jerry O’Neal, of Champaign. Upon arrival, officers learned O’Neal threatened a female with a firearm inside a private residence. […]