MARION, Ill. (WJPF) – The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office says a stolen handgun seized in a January has now been tied to several crimes across the Midwest.

On January 5, sheriff’s deputies arrested Brandon Tennyson at his home in Marion. Tennyson was armed with a handgun and resisted arrest.

The gun was turned over to the Illinois State Police. They say it was originally reported stolen to the University of Louisville Police Department and later used in crimes under investigation by police in Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City.