Police Find Gun Stash In Empty North Lawndale Apartment: Sheriff

CHICAGO, IL — Cook County Sheriff's police found arsenal of guns while checking in on a man under house arrest on Chicago's West Side. Officers were on patrol and conducting checks for people held under electronic monitoring in the North Lawndale neighborhood on Jan. 9 when they discovered the "gun stash house," according to the sheriff's office.

While checking in on a man restricted to a two-flat apartment building in the 1300 block of South Tripp Avenue on a judge's order, they noticed an exterior door had been left unlocked.

Police opened it and and headed upstairs, where they found a door propped open with a t-shirt.

They found the second-floor apartment had been left vacant – except for a couch and a collection of five long guns.

The two shotguns found by police were determined to be stolen from Woodstock. Officers also found two realistic looking air rifles alongside three bolt-action rifles with attached scopes.

The investigation into the weapons is still ongoing, the sheriff's office said.

_{Top photo: (From left) Two air rifles, three rifles with attached scopes, two shotguns believed stolen from McHenry County, all recovered by Cook County sheriff's police from a vacant upstairs apartment in the 1300 block of South Tripp Ave.}