Two men will be held in DuPage County jail on unrelated gun charges from arrests made by the Naperville Police Department, one involving a machine gun and the other a discharged weapon.
In the first case, a police officer pulled over a car after it came out of a Wendy’s parking lot in close proximity to the officer’s vehicle about 8:10 a.m. Thursday, a news release from the police department and the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office said.
The officer then spoke to Tony Thompson, 19, of the 400 block of Hillside Road, Joliet, seated in the the passenger seat and asked him to exit when additional officers arrived. While searching the vehicle, officers found a Glock 17 9-mm firearm with a switch capable of making it fully automatic beneath Thompson’s seat, the report said.
The second incident occurred about 8:05 p.m. Thursday when officers driving behind Naperville resident Trensae Ware, 24, of the 1500 block of West Jefferson Avenue, initially observed him not wearing a seat belt and then heard what sounded like a gunshot after which they saw “the vehicle lightly swerve and shake,” the report said.
When the four occupants exited, a spent casing was found on the driver’s seat, a loaded .45-caliber firearm below the front passenger seat and a bullet hole near the spot where the driver’s left foot would have been while seated, the report said.
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