Two Glock handguns turned up inside a New York apartment rented by convicted Chicago extortionist Jawad Fakroune, and federal prosecutors say the weapons belonged to a Chicago police officer who claimed they had been stolen. More than a year after that revelation reached the Chicago Police Department, Internal Affairs closed its investigation without ever identifying the officer.
The FBI recovered the two Glocks from Fakroune’s New York apartment on December 18, 2024, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, which first reported that the department failed to identify the officer whose firearms were found during the raid. Prosecutors say a person referred to in court filings only as Individual A told federal investigators he had left the guns at one of Fakroune’s Chicago homes and never got them back, then reported them stolen. Defense attorney Damon Cheronis, who represented Fakroune, told the Sun-Times that Individual A was a police officer but declined to name him.
Fakroune, described as a politically connected Chicago businessman, was already facing federal extortion charges by the time the guns surfaced. In November 2024, he confronted restaurateur Adolfo Garcia inside a River North restaurant over a disputed $405,000 loan, physically assaulting him and threatening his family in an incident federal prosecutors captured on video and audio surveillance. Prominent Chicago restaurateur Phil Stefani had originally introduced Fakroune to Garcia before the loan dispute turned violent.
A Fugitive Caught in Northwest Indiana
Fakroune fled after being charged with extortion and was ultimately arrested at a home in Northwest Indiana. In June, U.S. District Judge Manish S. Shah sentenced him to 78 months — six and a half years — in federal prison following his conviction for threatening a restaurant owner over what prosecutors described in that case as a $1.5 million debt, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal prosecutors argued in June 2025 that Fakroune posed a danger to the public…