Deputies encounter teens with air guns

CHAMPAIGN – For the second time in two days, Champaign County sheriff's deputies encountered teenage males with toy air guns that look like real guns while investigating a crime.

Sgt. Dan Coile said a volunteer Eastern Prairie firefighter reported seeing young men about 8:40 p.m. Wednesday atop the old Staley elevator at 417 Wilbur Ave. in the Wilbur Heights subdivision in north Champaign.

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