Aurora police recover two guns Monday, charge three with related offenses

Aurora police say they had a "very productive" Monday, recovering two guns and securing charges related to them on two juveniles and one adult.

At 11:15 p.m., Anthony McKnight, 18, of the 1300 block of Monomoy Street, was charged with two counts each of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm, along with a single count of resisting police, after police found a gun beneath the seat of a car he was sitting in, authorities said. He is being held on a no-bond warrant and will be transferred back to prison.

Police said they watched the driver, a 17-year-old Montgomery girl, fail to signal and pulled the car over. McKnight, who was in the front seat, was on parole, so investigators searched him. He at first refused to exit the vehicle but did after repeated demands.

At 3:08 p.m. that day, police said, they responded to a report of a stolen vehicle on the 400 block of Jackson Street.

A 47-year-old man reported that he left the keys in the ignition of his 1995 Jeep Cherokee and someone drove it away from in front of his home.

Police said they spotted a Jeep matching the description around 5:50 p.m. going north near Broadway and Pierce Street. When they tried to pull it over on the 900 block of Aurora Avenue, the driver sped away and led officers on a short chase that a supervisor terminated.

Several minutes later, another officer found the vehicle lodged in a snow bank at Church Road and Indian Trail and saw four people running away. Three of them were caught and a 16-year-old Aurora boy was found to have a loaded handgun in his pocket, police said. The boy was charged with two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and a single count of possession of a stolen motor vehicle, which are all felonies, and taken to the youth home.

He and two other teenagers were charged with misdemeanor obstructing police. The two younger boys were released to a parent.

Around 8:30 p.m., police responded to a near east side home after a relative of another 16-year-old boy found a gun in the boy's bedroom. Police said the relative took the magazine out and put the gun back where he found it.

When the boy discovered that the magazine was missing, he left the house with the gun, police said, and they later found him hiding in a friend's basement about 2 miles away. The gun was not recovered.

The boy was charged with two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and a single count of disorderly conduct and was taken to the youth home.