Crime & Safety
SWAT Arrests Man Who Threatened To 'Shoot Up' O'Hare: Police
Police said the man also threatened the White House, but after an anonymous tip, a SWAT unit showed up at his hotel room door.
CHICAGO — A police SWAT unit responded to a hotel near O'Hare International Airport Friday morning after an unidentified caller told police a man had threatened to shoot up the airport and the White House, police said. The man was taken into custody at 3:37 a.m., and charged against him are pending.
Police said the anonymous tipster called the Chicago Police Department's front desk at O'Hare and told them his friend had sent a picture of himself with a gun in his car.
"The caller stated his friend was checked into a hotel near O'Hare and that he told him he was going to 'shoot up' the White House and O'Hare Airport," police said.
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When the SWAT unit arrived at his hotel room door, the man let them in, and he was arrested without incident, police said. Further information wasn't immediately available.
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