More charges in Sugar Grove shooting vandalism
A Sugar Grove man faces additional charges related to a night of driving around and shooting up road signs and construction equipment in the Sugar Grove area June 15, police said Wednesday.
The man's passenger, who had not been charged by Kane County Sheriff's deputies, has been charged by Sugar Grove police with similar crimes.
Sugar Grove police filed felony complaints in Kane County court June 18 against 24-year-olds Gabriel M. Carpenter and Travis J. Lake. Carpenter is accused of reckless discharge of a firearm, one count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and criminal damage to government-supported property, all Class 4 felonies.
Lake, also of Sugar Grove, faces the same charges, plus a Class 3 felony charge of possession of a firearm while his firearm owner identification card was revoked.
The reckless discharge complaints indicate that when they fired the gun, it was in the direction of a house, which could have injured the person residing there.
Bond was set for both men and Carpenter paid $2,500 and was released.
Lake has not been apprehended.
Lake lives on the first block of Hanover Lane; Carpenter lives in the 0-99 block of Heaton Court.
Residents reported hearing shots fired around 11 p.m. on Wheeler Road in Sugar Grove Township. Sheriff's deputies stopped a car matching witness's descriptions on Bliss Road near Route 47. Sheriff's deputies found a .40-caliber pistol underneath the driver's seat of Carpenter's car, spent shells in and under the seat, and an empty box of .40-caliber ammunition under the seat. Road signs and construction equipment in several areas had been struck.
Lake told sheriff's deputies that he had not fired the gun, but that he had held it.
No one was injured.
Carpenter was arrested on the Sugar Grove warrant June 24 in Perry County in southern Illinois, and posted bail the same day.
Carpenter had previously been charged by Kane County Sheriff's deputies with reckless discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, both Class 4 felonies, and a misdemeanor count of property damage. His next court date on those charges is July 13.