Chicago home search leads to felony charges, seizures of drugs and guns

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The Brief

  • Three people are facing felony charges after investigators found guns, drugs, ammunition, 10 firearm switches and more than $14,000 during a search of a Chicago home.
  • Authorities said the search was part of an investigation into the delivery of switches that can convert guns to fully automatic fire.
  • Two defendants were released from custody, while a third was ordered held in Cook County Jail.

CHICAGO Three people are facing felony charges after investigators recovered firearms, drugs, ammunition and more than $14,000 during a search of a home in Chicago’s Wrightwood neighborhood.

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What we know:

Cook County Sheriff’s police and U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigators executed a search warrant Aug. 13 at a home in the 2700 block of West 84th Street. The search was connected to an investigation into the delivery of gun switches, devices that can convert guns to fully automatic fire.

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