Posted on 10/07/2017 8:58:33 PM PDT by SSS Two
Three people were taken into custody Saturday after a driver was pulled over as he left O’Hare International Airport and an assault-style rifle and handgun were found inside his vehicle.
A pressure cooker was also found during the traffic stop, which happened shortly after 8 a.m. as the vehicle exited O’Hare Airport, according to Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
Neither the guns nor the pressure cooker were believed to have been intended for any acts of violence in the city, which will see enhanced security measures during the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, police said.
The vehicle was stopped after the driver was seen speeding by officers as it left O’Hare Airport, police said. A handgun was initially found inside, but a more thorough search also revealed an AR-15 rifle and the pressure cooker in the vehicle’s trunk.
Three people were taken into custody and the CPD Organized Crime Bureau and Joint Terrorism Task Force were called to conduct an investigation, police said.
Police said they don’t believe the pressure cooker was intended to be weaponized after finding food and grease remnants inside.
The driver of the vehicle, a 32-year-old man from Wisconsin, was being cooperative with officers and federal agents, police said. He said he was in Chicago to drop off a friend at the airport.
Police said they have concluded the man posed no threat to events in the city, but were working with prosecutors and seeking aggravated weapons charges in connection with the incident.
All three people remained in custody Saturday night, Guglielmi said.
Police added that while there was not believed to be a threat to events in the city connected to this case, runners and spectators at the Chicago Marathon should expect to see a “very visible presence” of police officers along the marathon’s route. The department has also increased the number of undercover officers working the marathon and will be coordinating with FBI agents, Homeland Security officials and Illinois State Police.
Patrols in and around Wrigley Field and Solider Field will also be increased for National League Division Series games and Monday’s Chicago Bears game against the Minnesota Vikings, police said.
““AR rifles are perfectly legal in Illinois. So is the handgun. “
oh, yeah? what about pressure cookers? you gonna tell me those are legal in Illinois too???”
The democrats are working on pressure cookers and crock pots too.
Memo
To: All Employees
Subject: O’Hare Airport Chicago
Reference:Chicago Sun Times 10/07/17
1. Effective immediately employees are advised to avoid the airport in Chicago where police state conditions prevail.
2. The same proviso is advised for all of the bankrupt state of illinois where out of staters are routinely arrested and forced to pay fines to supplement the inadequate taxation
I’ve been stopped for speeding at least 50 times in my life. None of those resulted in the cops finding something in my car that was not in plain sight. I don’t get this story.
If everything was in the trunk, why is it they were stopped in the first place? Enquiring minds want to know . . .
They were foreigners....... from Wisconsin
That law was in place 25 years ago when I had to strip my weapon just to travel through Illinois going from Indiana to Wisconsin.
If everything was in the trunk, why is it they were stopped in the first place? Enquiring minds want to know . . .
I apologize, I see it now. speeding. I have had two three speeding tickets and never even hinted at a vehicle search, but then again, its Chicago.
What a wonderful story.
Two good sized ‘chokes take about 40 minutes in this particular cooker.
Do they have Obama sounding names? Haha
“Name is Santos Zamora, according to the linked story. Pic is labeled same also.”
I know a Cheesehead when I see one...and that ain’t one.
Chicago allows ar15s?
So you’re an idiot now if you have an SKS and a pistol in trunk
And used kitchen devices
From Wisconsin to pick someone up or drop off at airport
In a free nation these guys did jack shit
Sounds like somebody was at hunting camp
One firearm was in the car—not trunk.
“Chicago allows ar15s?”
They’re perfectly legal in Illinois. My wife and I each own one.
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Illinois allows CCP holders from other states to carry while passing through. The key there is without stopping, so it was ok for me to carry going from MO to KY via Cairo, but when I go from Indianapolis to the Quad Cities, it’s dicey that I won’t stop for gas or use a rest area, so I pack my sidearm for interstate travel.
These guys got busted. I don’t know if what they did was intentional, careless, or just stupid, but Illinois got them.
The guy did do jack sh*t...
The guy was speeding, had no insurance, and had a firearm in the vehicle (not the trunk) with no Conceal Carry permit.
In addition, he had an AR-15 in the trunk and a pressure cooker.
Sorry, he was an idiot.
#1. He could/should have a CC if he wants to carry firearms in his car in IL and many other states.
#2. Onus on him to know the legal firearm transporting laws of any states he is visiting. Same for any municipality. This goes for people who have CC and people who are transporting firearms across state lines. He was in Chicago—a city known for very tough firearm laws.
I will give you an example—my spouse had some Himalayan salt that they wanted to take with us on a flight up to Alsska—very good tasty and medicinal salt..Anyway, put it in a zip-lock baggie. Well guess who got stopped and had to have salt go thru drug test, etc. Had spouse put the salt in checked bag or left in original container, we would not have had to wait for 15 minutes while the “substance” was tested. Spouse was not thinking...
#3. With the Chicago Marathon and a game this weekend, there is heightened security...Plus he was at the airport...another area of more rigourous security.
#$. He chose to improperly/illegally transport firearms including an AR-15 less than a week after largest mass shooting in US history since Wounded Knee...
#4. He had a pressure cooker with the AR-15—in Chicago the day of the 5K and day before the famous Chicago Marathon.
Camping trip? Sounds like fun...However, if coming to Cook County and don’t have a CC permit, then field strip weapons, put on trigger locks, put in cases, lock up ammo—put in trunk...then would not have been held for Aggravated Weapons charge.
Bad timing. Bad optics.
After the Boston Marathon bombing, people kept saying authorities should have/could have stopped the Tsarnaev brothers before the bombing in Boston—same for the couple in San Bernardo, Cali...Yet, people are critical of the police here for police stopping someone and bringing them in for questioning...
People here are very pro law enforcement...well one function of the CC laws is police safety. Police don’t want to be shot during routine traffic stops, and they get jumpy when stopping someone and they see the person has a firearm in reach in the car.
True, because IL has the most rigorous CC training of all states—so if get IL CC, can obtain CC for pretty much all states (with the exception of California?)
So if not IL resident, then have to use non-CC firearm transport laws. That said, there is a push for reciprocity—212 sponsors.
http://foxillinois.com/news/local/concealed-carry-reciprocity-may-be-coming-to-illinois
Momentum: National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Now Has 212 House Co-Sponsors
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/28/national-reciprocity-picks-212th-house-sponsor/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3592100/posts
In many states nothing described here is a crime.
Sometimes a pressure cooker is just a pressure cooker.
On the flip side, it’s possible those involved are from an ethnic group that tends to be more ‘splodey than others. Which seems likely given the complete lack of commentary on that.
Agreed...but if you live in Wisconsin and are coming to Cook County IL, you don’t
1. Speed
2. Have no insurance
3. Have a firearm in car in reach of driver or passenger
I don’t know about the AR-15 in trunk—to be legal, it should have been field stripped/had a trigger lock and/or been locked up...
And to bring in a pressure cooker on weekend of Chicago Marathons??? Seriously?!?! ...at the very least, really bad optics.
With all the crazies in the world, I am glad they got stopped and checked out. From what I read, they let the 2 passengers go, charged the driver for the firearm in the car.
I, too, am wondering about ethnicity—driver did not look like Amish or Wisconsin polka fan, but who knows...
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