Month: February 2022

A man who’s on bail for a felony gun case accidentally fired a shot while trying to dump a handgun as cops chased him for driving a hijacked car in Rogers Park this week, prosecutors said.

Hader Garcia got lucky when cops caught him driving a hijacked car last month. He wasn’t so lucky Friday when prosecutors said detectives linked a gun found inside that car to a murder.

Just 7 days after being placed on electronic monitoring for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Kyle Linton was walking down a West Side street with another gun equipped with a 50-round ammo magazine, prosecutors say.

A Chicago police officer punched a handcuffed man four times in the groin while arresting him for allegedly shooting at other cops on Christmas Eve, prosecutors said.

A six-time convicted felon with a pending felony drug case was charged earlier this month with throwing a bag containing $6,300 worth of individually-packaged heroin from a Lexus that belongs to the Chicago Police Department’s Chief of Internal Affairs