Group flees after home break-in near Centralia woods

Heard on: Centralia Police, Fire & EMS Dispatch

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

00:00

Unit Salem's on a 911 call.

00:02

(number withheld) Gierten Road, Centralia.

00:06

Caller says somebody broke into his residence and he chased him to the woods closer to Richardson Road.

00:16

28104.

00:27

Six twenty-eight. It's going to be four or five people dressed in black.

00:30

They went to the woods near Richardson near Levee.

00:36

Unsure if anything is taken.

00:41

28104.

00:45

I also took a call from a female at (number withheld) Cascade Lane.

00:51

She advised a vehicle pulled into her driveway.

00:55

She could not give me a vehicle description.

00:57

I'm not sure if it's connected or not.

01:04

County 20, can you take me off of this call and attach him for a unit?

01:09

10-4.

01:15

Found on Richardson towards Levee near the oil rig.

01:20

He believes that the subjects are still in the wooded area.

2026-10-29 07:13 UTC

Break-In

Gierten Rd, Centralia, IL 62801

Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, dispatch reports a possible home invasion at a residence on Gierten Road in Centralia, where a caller says someone broke in and the caller chased the suspected intruders toward the woods near Richardson Road and the levee. Four or five people dressed in black were reported heading into the wooded area near an oil rig, and a separate nearby report of an unknown vehicle in a driveway was mentioned as possibly connected.