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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And I was born in IL and left it in 1971.
From his picture, that’s what I’d suspect. Looks like a real punk.
Isn’t that one of those MS-13 haircuts? Doubt he’s a Mo Howard fan.
Yeah, somebody is on a serious war footing.
That is the way it works in Georgia as well. Hmmm. I'm low on 9mm.
I'm surprised the Illinois NKVD police didn't display their trophies (all 38) on a table for the lickspittle press to gush over.
With a numbered evidence tag by each one.
So many people in this country are self-selected slaves and they don’t even know it. I guess for some the pay is good.
Ill-annoy?
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