Evanston Cops Recover Gun Off Streets of Chicago

EVANSTON, IL - Police officers who are a part of the Evanston Police Department's tactical unit played a key role in removing a gun off the streets of crime-ridden Chicago Thursday night.

Evanston police were looking for a 16-year-old boy they knew who was wanted for questioning in an incident that occurred there in August of this year, according to a police report. When they found him near Marshfield Avenue and Jonquil Terrace in Chicago around 7 p.m., the boy fled on foot but was taken down nearby in the 7600 block of north Bosworth Avenue.

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In making the arrest, police found a loaded Beretta 9mm handgun and about 10 grams of what's believed to be cannabis on the boy.

The boy was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful use of a weapon with no firearm owner's identification card and possession of cannabis with intent to deliver and turned over to the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center.

photo via the Evanston Police Department