Man at wheel in 2022 Loop shootout jailed again after gun allegedly found in bar microwave – CWB Chicago

The person who was driving a hijacked automotive when his passenger opened fireplace on Chicago law enforcement officials within the Loop, prompting officers to shoot the gunman, is again in jail after prosecutors mentioned CPD officers noticed him pointing a gun at somebody outdoors a North Facet bar final weekend.

Noel Centeno, 24, was AWOL from a pending gun case on the time of the January 2022 shootout with Chicago police at Decrease Wacker Drive and Columbus Drive that ended along with his passenger, Edgardo Perez, receiving a 40-year jail sentence. Centeno, who prosecutors mentioned was unarmed in the course of the Loop incident, obtained a four-year sentence.

However prosecutors now say Centeno did have a gun round 11:12 p.m. Saturday within the 2700 block of West Devon Avenue. CPD officers monitoring a surveillance digital camera allegedly noticed Centeno level a firearm at one other individual, described in a police report as his “buddy,” earlier than placing the weapon away.

When patrol officers arrived, they noticed Centeno stroll into Casey’s Nook, 2733 West Devon Avenue, so that they entered the bar and eliminated him from the premises, based on the report. Officers didn’t discover a gun on him. Police then returned contained in the tavern and located a loaded 9-millimeter pistol inside a microwave close to the entrance door, not removed from the place Centeno had been detained, the report mentioned.

Decide Ankur Srivastava ordered Centeno held pending trial, noting that he has seven felony convictions over the previous 9 years, together with juvenile adjudications for 4 armed robberies.

Again in 2022, CPD mentioned Centeno denied that he carjacked the car that he and his associates have been driving in on the time of the capturing. Reasonably, he allegedly claimed he discovered the car on Howard Avenue with the keys inside.