{"id":272369,"date":"2025-10-02T17:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272369\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:05:11","slug":"chicago-man-on-parole-arrested-after-deputies-find-stolen-gun-during-eviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272369\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago man on parole arrested after deputies find stolen gun during eviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kentrell-leggitt.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Kentrell Leggit | Cook County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a> man is facing gun charges when he was kicked out of his home during a court-ordered eviction.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Kentrell Leggitt, 28, was taken into custody on Sept. 24 after Cook County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies found two guns in his residence in the 7100 block of South Langley Avenue, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">While enforcing the eviction, deputies found a loaded fully automatic pistol near the front door and an AK-47-style rifle that was reported stolen out of South Bend, Indiana in a bedroom, according to the Cook County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Leggitt was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a repeat felony offender and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon. At the time of his arrest, Leggitt was on parole and the subject of two active warrants.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Leggitt was ordered held at Cook County Jail after his initial court appearance on Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this report came from the Cook County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/park-manor\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Park Manor<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Kentrell Leggit | Cook County Sheriff&#8217;s Office CHICAGO &#8211; A Chicago man is facing gun charges when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":272370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,1818,50,124765,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-272369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-park-manor","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115305665814828354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}