{"id":901564,"date":"2026-06-29T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/901564\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:41:23","slug":"cook-county-crime-man-charged-after-ghost-gun-found-1-3m-in-stolen-cargo-recovered-in-separate-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/901564\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook County crime: Man charged after ghost gun found; $1.3M in stolen cargo recovered in separate case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

COOK COUNTY, Ill.<\/strong> – A suburban Chicago man is facing a felony charge after Cook County Sheriff’s Police said they found a loaded ghost gun during a traffic stop, while deputies also announced recovering more than $1.3 million in stolen cargo from two trailers in a separate investigation.<\/p>\n

Ghost gun arrest <\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

Officers stopped a silver Chevrolet Equinox around 6:55 p.m. on June 23 in the 4100 block of 135th Street in Robbins because of a traffic violation.<\/p>\n

While speaking with the driver, sheriff’s police learned that suspected marijuana was inside the SUV and asked 20-year-old Chavarous Graves of Robbins to get out while they searched the vehicle for narcotics.<\/p>\n

During the search, officers reported finding a loaded ghost gun, meaning it had no serial number and was untraceable. It was equipped with a laser sight and a blue pistol grip.<\/p>\n

According to the sheriff’s office, Graves did not have a valid FOID card or a concealed carry license.<\/p>\n

Graves was taken into custody and while searching him, officers also recovered his cellphone, which had a lock screen photo showing what appeared to be the same gun with the blue pistol grip.<\/p>\n

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Later that night, Graves was charged with one count of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon. He was released from custody the next day after his first court appearance in Markham.<\/p>\n

Stolen trailers recovered <\/p>\n

In a separate case, the Sheriff’s Police Organized Retail Crime Unit recovered two stolen trailers containing more than $1.3 million worth of products.<\/p>\n

Investigators said they received information June 18 that a trailer carrying about $300,000 worth of copper wire stolen from Pine Hill, Alabama, was at a truck yard in the 2500 block of East Higgins Road in unincorporated Elk Grove Township.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived, they found the trailer and the copper wire inside. They also learned the trailer had Indiana license plates that were reported stolen in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

The owner of the truck yard told investigators the same person had dropped off another trailer the week before.<\/p>\n

Investigators contacted the owner of that trailer and learned it had been reported stolen June 10 from Jacksonville, Florida. It contained about $1 million in infrastructure equipment for data centers.<\/p>\n

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Stolen cargo found in two trailers in northwest suburbs. <\/p>\n

What we don’t know:<\/p>\n

It remains unclear when Graves is due back in court.<\/p>\n

As for the cargo theft investigation, sheriff’s police have not identified the person who delivered the stolen trailers or announced any arrests.<\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> The information in this story came from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n

Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Robbins<\/a>Elk Grove Village<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COOK COUNTY, Ill. – A suburban Chicago man is facing a felony charge after Cook County Sheriff’s Police…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":901565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,57653,5386,1818,50,103348,68],"class_list":["post-901564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-cook-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-elk-grove-village","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-news","tag-robbins","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116835338964891516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901564","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=901564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}