I bet there is more to this story...even in communist Illinois.
Posted on 03/02/2026 10:25:13 AM PST by algore
The SWAT response and shelter-in-place order in Lake in the Hills Thursday morning was due to a search warrant on a 20-year-old man allegedly possessing 38 rounds of pistol and rifle ammunition without a FOID card.
Joel Fernandez, 20, was arrested without incident at his residence in the 1400 block of Clayton Marsh Drive in Lake in the Hills and was charged with four counts of possessing ammunition without a valid Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) card, a Class A misdemeanor.
At around 9:50 a.m. Thursday, the Lake in the Hills Police Department – assisted by the Carpentersville Police Department and the McHenry County Sheriff’s multijurisdictional SWAT team – executed a search warrant at Fernandez’s residence.
“The search warrant was part of a joint investigation into illegal activity,” the Lake in the Hills Police Department said in a news release.
A criminal complaint filed in McHenry County Circuit Court alleges that Fernandez knowingly possessed – without a valid FOID card – 20 cartridges of .45 Auto Sellier & Bellot branded full metal jacket (FMJ), 13 cartridges of .223 Remington branded steel core FMJ, one cartridge of 9mm Blazer Brass branded FMJ, one cartridge of 9mm Remington-Peters branded FMJ, one cartridge of 9mm Speer branded jacketed hollow point (JHP), and two cartridges of 9mm Sig Sauer branded JHP.
This means that Fernandez was allegedly possessing 25 cartridges of pistol ammunition and 13 cartridges of rifle ammunition, totaling 38.
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I bet there is more to this story...even in communist Illinois.
How do people who don’t have an Illinois FOID card use a gun range? They have to hold ammo and a gun and they aren’t legal to do that.
Stories like this remind me to check under my sofa cushions.
Looks like they got their chance to show off their toys and act like real bad asses.
Pathetic.
How does that square with the second amendment?
It could be they were investigating larger crimes and this was all they could get on him quickly, sorta like going after Capone for taxes.
Even if that is the case, they just gave him an easy out by claiming fruit from the poisoned tree for what is basically a BS warrant.
“I bet there is more to this story”
And I bet you are right.
Not necessary in free states. I can buy as much ammo as I have money for in Alaska with no card or permission needed and no limit in place.
I would have arrested him for not having enough ammo. Pathetic.
Nice precedent. The SCOTUS will SWAT this one down for certain.
The search warrant arose from a "joint investigation into illegal activity," but public reports (including from the police department's Facebook post, NBC Chicago, Shaw Local/Northwest Herald, and follow-ups on Lake and McHenry County Scanner) do not specify what that broader "illegal activity" was...the public record points to this being a straightforward (if heavily resourced) enforcement of Illinois' strict FOID requirements for ammunition possession, with no evident deeper criminal context disclosed.So nothing has leaked about the possible "illegal activity" -- other than apparently illegal ammunition possession.
For this they roll the Tonka Truck? Pussies.
This unconstitutionally nuts.
That list of ammo is pocket lint. Illinois? what a commie place. You need some card to carry ammo?
Surely this is a joke from the Bee...
38-rnds???
A normal supply would have to be measured in “cases” for each calibre...
Obviously part of a major terrorist conspiracy, or racketeering/organized crime family...
/sarc>... Yes looks like a list of pocket lint.
It rolls over it with an MRAP SWAT rig.
“Joel Fernandez, 20, was arrested without incident at his residence in the 1400 block of Clayton Marsh Drive in Lake in the Hills and was charged with four counts of possessing ammunition without a valid Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) card, a Class A misdemeanor.”
So a victimless ‘crime’.
agreed... I say guilty until proven innocent on that mug...
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