An Indiana man has been arrested making a “straw purchase” of the gun used to kill the Chicago police office to evade federal law. The Trib reports:
The gun used to kill Chicago police Officer Ella French during a traffic stop Saturday was bought in a sham purchase by an Indiana man on behalf of another man, who was in the car French and her partner pulled over before they were shot, federal prosecutors allege.
Jamel Danzy now faces charges of conspiring to violate federal firearms laws. A bond hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
French was killed and her partner was critically wounded over the weekend after the traffic stop in West Englewood. Chicago police have two men in custody connected to the shooting, one of whom was arrested in possession of a Glock semi-automatic pistol, authorities said. Charges against those two suspects have not yet been announced.
But shortly after the shooting, investigators traced both the gun and the car to Danzy, a restaurant worker in northwest Indiana, according to the complaint.
ATF agents on Sunday tracked down Danzy at the restaurant where he works, and he agreed to be interviewed on tape in an agent’s car in the parking lot.
Agents showed him the paperwork from the dealer, and at first, he claimed to have bought the gun for himself, the complaint states. But “after further questioning,†he admitted he instead had bought it for someone in Chicago, Individual A, who had a felony record and could not buy a gun for himself.
What law could have prevented this? It was already against the law. The problem is not that we need more laws or even that we need better enforcement, a common complaint of mine. It is that people are breaking the law.
Chicago does not have a gun problem, it has a black problem. And the Groot is part of it.
Monte Morgan, the man charged with the shooting, does not appear to be Black, he doesn’t appear to be in the category of White Supremacist either.
At issue is the mayor’s new strategy attempting to control crime by stiffening gun law enforcement.
They should have been doing that all along but priorities you know.
I thought interesting the middleman agreed to an interview admitting to buying the Glock for a felon, maybe he doesn’t consider that a big deal, maybe he will now, but the gun problem won’t go away without stop and frisk which at least in N.Y., motivated bangers to leave the heater at home for premeditated murders only.
They passed a law against drug importation, too. Shockingly, drugs make it to IL as well.
I’m pretty sure that Emonte Morgan thinks of himself as black.
I had thought the E was a typo.
I would never have identified him as black until I saw his brother’s ‘do.
I guess it really is hard to agree on anything.
If I said he’s black I’m a racist, if I don’t, I’ve denied him his cultural identity.
He’ll go to prison a hero anyway, you know.