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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What communist state is this?
What third-world hell-hole is this, Canada?
Illinois.
“””What third-world hell-hole is this, Canada?”””
Worse. Illinois
Illinois, note the cops also breaking traffic laws with their big toys.
Insanity.
Illinois
In Ill-a-noise.
It is illegal to hold ammo in Illinois without a permit??
... enemies foreign and DOMESTIC.
Obviously part of a major terrorist conspiracy, or racketeering/organized crime family...
/sarc
This is what tyranny is. They nailed it.
Guess they missed that “shall not be infringed” bit.
Seriously, all he had was some ammo? Ridiculous.
all that for a misdemeanor?
Yes. That is one of many ways in which the Peoples’ Glorious Democratic Soviet Socialist Republic of Illinois violates the Constitution.
The threatening letters from IL did not provide an alternative method and when I tried calling to resolve the situation I was just caught in endless automated message loops with no option to reach a human and no option to leave messages, etc. I wasn't going to blindly mail the permit to an office that might ignore or mishandle it while they continued to make threats (anyone familiar with IL government should know what I'm talking about), so I wound up ignoring it all. Now I just try to avoid being in Illinois on the off chance their boneheaded government considers me a dangerous criminal.
Roll the tanks, boys, there’s a misdemeanor in progress. (What’s the phrase? Full retard?)
I did not know an ammo ID card is necessary.
School lock Down
Shelter In Place
SWAT Teams and All for 38 rounds of ammo.
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Good Work citizens!
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