Man charged with having illegal automatic gun

Pretrial release was denied Friday for a Westmont man accused of having a loaded gun that was modified to fire in fully automatic mode.

Canutie Collins, 20, of the 0-100 block of West Oakley Drive, is charged with unlawful use of a weapon ‒ machine gun, and unlawful possession of a stolen motor vehicle.

A co-defendant, Mathias Henyard, 18, of the 4400 block of West End Avenue, Chicago, was charged with unlawful possession of a stolen motor vehicle. That is a non-detainable offense under the dangerousness standard, according to a news release from DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin.

Westmont police say that around 2:26 p.m. Wednesday a license-plate-reading camera system alerted them to a Nissan Rogue that had been reported stolen in Rockford earlier in the day. The Rogue was backed into a parking space on Oakley Drive South, with two people in it, later determined to be Collins and Henyard.

It pulled out and went to a parking lot on Oakley Drive North, where the men took the rear license plate off the vehicle. Collins got out, went in to an apartment, and came back, police said.

When police were arresting him, they said they saw the barrel of a handgun sticking out of a backpack he was wearing. The 9mm gun had one round in the chamber, and an extended magazine, police said. It had been altered to allow fully automatic firing, according to police.