Inmate Used Trickery To Sneak Gun Into Jail

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Mar 31, 2009 5:00PM

An inmate in the Cook County Jail managed to sneak a loaded gun in with him - even though he was searched four times - by tying the gun to the drawstring of his shorts and allowing it to dangle between his legs. Bennie Ellison, 39, was arrested on drug charges on March 18 and searched multiple times by police and Cook County sheriff deputies, but the gun was never discovered. When Ellison realized he'd have to change clothes for a bond hearing, he abandoned the gun in the jail laundry room where another inmate discovered it. Ellison has been charged with unlawful use of a weapon, a felony, for the incident. [WGN Radio]