SAA event in United States of America on Mon 13th January 2025

A man is in custody after a maintenance worker allegedly found a rifle, several IDs, and what appeared to be bomb-making materials inside his Near South Side apartment on Monday morning. The Chicago Police Bomb Squad joined the response and determined the scene was safe.

Shortly before 11 a.m., a man doing heating and air conditioning maintenance in a building in the 500 block of East 33rd Place called 911 to report suspicious objects inside an apartment. Responding officers were told the man found “several different IDs…laying around” along with a rifle, explosive devices, and chemicals.

A picture of the suspected explosive devices obtained by CWBChicago shows two objects appearing to be sticks of dynamite and wires wrapped together. It also shows two rectangular objects, one labeled “TNT” and the other marked “C4,” connected to wires and an external box.

After seeing the objects, first responders moved some residents away from the suspect’s apartment as a precaution. CPD bomb squad technicians determined the objects were “safe and posed no threat,” according to a police media statement.

CPD said one person was taken into custody, but the department did not say why.