Shonte Peoples (born August 30, 1972) is a former linebacker in the Canadian Football League. Having played his college football at the University of Michigan, Peoples signed on with the Las Vegas Posse, a CFL expansion franchise, in 1994. He moved on to another CFL American team, the Birmingham Barracudas, in 1995. In March 1994 he fired a pistol at police he had mistaken for car thieves trying to steal his expensive new Jeep. Four months later, a jury found him guilty on two felony charges of assault with a dangerous weapon.[citation needed]