Month: June 2022

A man who was recently paroled for being a felon in possession of a firearm was arrested Thursday after he showed up at “Project Safe Neighborhoods,” an Illinois Department of Corrections parolee event, with a gun in his car, prosecutors say.

The first day of the month was a pretty bad one for David Gomez. Sheriff’s deputies went to his Chicago apartment to evict him. Then they found $78,000 worth of drugs as they were moving him out, prosecutors said Thursday.

The man who investigators believe shot a Chicago police officer during a traffic stop on Wednesday evening was charged in late 2020 with being a felon in possession of a firearm, but prosecutors dropped the case against him just four months ago, according to court records.

A man who’s on parole for robbery told police he opened fire on another vehicle while travelling an expressway because he thought the car was full of rival gang members, prosecutors said Wednesday.