A routine traffic stop by Cook County Sheriff’s Police officers recently resulted in the arrests of five men for illegally possessing firearms, the agency said Tuesday. But, while a judge ordered all five men detained on the felony charges, court records show a different judge released all of them less than a week later.
It all started when sheriff’s police officers tried to pull over a red Chevy Impala for having illegally tinted windows as it traveled through River North around 5:16 p.m. on August 9, according to a sheriff’s office spokesperson. They said the car sped away and evaded officers before it eventually stopped in an alley in the 500 block of North La Salle Drive.
Officers ordered the occupants out, searched them, and searched the vehicle…