Four criminal felony charges have been filed by the office of St. Clair County State’s Attorney James F. Gomric against Keajion L. Jennings, 28, of Belleville in connection with the crashing of a car into the rear of a Fairview Heights Police Department vehicle on Sept. 24.
A Fairview Heights Police Department officer, who had observed an expired (five years old) state license plate sticker on the back of another vehicle on Old Collinsville Road conducted a traffic stop of that vehicle about a quarter-mile south of Frank Scott Parkway in Swansea.
After that officer had exited the police unit, which was fully marked as being part of the Fairview Heights Police Department, with its emergency lights flashing, and was walking toward the vehicle with the expired sticker, a dark gray 2018 Chevrolet Camaro struck the police vehicle from behind, causing major damage to both…