Crime & Safety
Shorewood Man Arrested at Midway Airport
He's the eighth person to try to bring a handgun through security, according to the TSA.
The record for guns at Midway Airport climbed a little higher this week.
A Shorewood man bound for Las Vegas tried to pass through a Midway Airport security checkpoint with a loaded gun in his carry-on bag Thursday night. This is the eighth handgun seizure at Midway this year, according to the Transportation Security Administration. Six were discovered in all of 2014.
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David Weber, 43, is charged with one misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed firearm in an airport, according to Chicago Police. TSA agents found a loaded 9mm in his bag at about 9:30 p.m. Thursday.
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