In Chicago and nationwide, the number of so-called ghost guns used in crimes has drastically increased over the past several years. Chicago police Superintendent David Brown has said they are the “subset of guns seized that is growing the most” in the city.
On a Sunday morning in March, Devon Dow allegedly texted a potential customer a photo of some firearms he was selling, along with one word: “YO.”
Dow, 22, was charged with one count of willfully dealing firearms without a license. At a detention hearing on Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Albert Berry asked that he be held in custody as a danger to the community, saying a search of his apartment turned up additional guns, gun parts and ammunition clips.
The judge ordered Dow released on home confinement to the custody of his mother and sister, who live in Lansing. Earlier this month, following the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Seandell Holliday near The Bean in Millennium Park, police said another youth pulled a gun from his waistband, then ran as officers moved in. He was quickly apprehended and the weapon was found to be a ghost gun.
Meanwhile, the investigation into Dow’s alleged trafficking of ghost guns began on Jan. 3 when a Chicago police informant tipped law enforcement to a man who “ordered firearm parts from the internet” and was assembling them for sale in the city’s Grand Crossing neighborhood, according to the complaint unsealed after Dow’s arrest last week.On Jan. 14, the informant arranged a meeting between Dow and an undercover agent posing as a potential buyer, according to the complaint.
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