Berwyn Police Blotter
“Person with gun” reported, followed by arrests for cannabis and cognac
October 1, 2008, 4:31 PM
Callers reported three suspicious males standing beside a black pickup truck at 27th and Ridgeland, one—a male Hispanic with a bald head—holding a gun. Responding officers saw three men by a truck, as described, talking to the driver; one of the men, matching the gun-toter’s description, then moved slowly toward the truckbed and dropped into it what looked like a handgun. Police ordered the three men outside the truck to come to the front of the squad, and ordered the driver to exit the truck. The three men on foot complied. The driver, however, put the truck in drive and fled.
The bald man seen placing a gun in the truckbed was arrested; a patdown revealed a bottle of Hennessey cognac and several copper BBs. While police were running the three men’s names, one fled, but was caught trying to hide in a yard in the 6400 block of 27th. Martin Solis Jr., 19, of 1532 Gunderson, was charged with resisting an officer, escape, and possession of alcohol by a minor.
Meanwhile, the fleeing driver was stopped in the 6500 block of 26th Place. He was Anthony N. Morales, 18, of 6617 31st. The truckbed contained a .17.7 caliber BB gun. In Morales’s pocket, police found a plastic bag of marijuana. Lying on the driver-side floorboard was a plastic bag containing five regular-size plastic bags of pot, and eight smaller-size bags of pot. Morales told police the truck and the drugs belong to a friend. He said he fled because he knew the marijuana was present. He was charged with one felony count of marijuana possession.
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