Former Knox Man in Cook County Jail

William Blankenship
William Blankenship
A former Knox man who was arrested for stealing a police car in Kouts was recently arrested in Illinois.

Cook County Court records indicate that William Blankenship III was arrested on Aug. 23 on two counts of Residential Burglary, Theft of a Coin Operated Machine and Possession of a Controlled Substance. He is in the Cook County Jail on $100,000 bond.

He allegedly entered into two different homes in Lyons, Ill. which happens to be the town in which he lists as his current address.