2 Career Criminal Negroes, Alexander Peebles and Warren Gates, charged after 111 guns stolen from South Side railroad yard

Two men were hit with federal gun charges in connection with the theft of 111 weapons from a cargo train resting overnight in a South Side rail yard earlier this year.

Alexander Peebles and Warren Gates were charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. The investigation found that eight other men also were involved in the theft of 111 of 318 firearms from a Ruger factory shipment, according to criminal complaints filed in U.S. District Court.


It happened on April 12 at 8000 S. Chicago Avenue. About 7 a.m., railroad employees inspecting the train noticed multiple locks and seals were cut open. The train, which came from Ruger’s New Hampshire factory, continued on to its final destination in Spokane, Washington, where authorities found that 111 of the Ruger factory firearms were missing, according to a federal affidavit. Seventy of those firearms were .22 caliber weapons.

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