A south suburban man has been charged for posting Facebook threats to kill police officers,\u00a0a police source told the Chicago Sun-Times.<\/p>\n
According to the police source, the post set off alarms in the law enforcement community following the cold-blooded murders of two New York City cops.<\/p>\n
Aries Woodfin, 33, was arrested late Friday and police searched a home where he lived in Ford Heights.<\/p>\n
Officers found a .45-caliber pistol in the home and a makeshift gun range in the basement with dozens of spent bullet casings of various calibers strewn on the floor, the source said.<\/p>\n
Woodfin, a convicted felon, was charged in Cook County Criminal Court with illegal gun possession, a felony, along with misdemeanor charges of assault, failure to have a valid firearm owner\u2019s identification card and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n
He was ordered held without bond Saturday, according to the Cook County Sheriff\u2019s Office website.<\/p>\n
Woodfin allegedly posted recent messages on Facebook threatening to kill police officers and \u201cinnocent white children,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n
He allegedly posted photos of white children on his Facebook account along with the threats.<\/p>\n
A woman who saw the threats contacted Alabama police officials, who then contacted the Chicago Police Department whose Bureau of Organized Crime launched an investigation.<\/p>\n
When he was arrested, Woodfin allegedly told officers he was a \u201cwarrior\u201d and the \u201cstreets would run red with blood,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n
Woodfin was previously convicted in 2000 of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon \u2014 illegal gun possession \u2014 and was sentenced to probation. He resided in Ford Heights and in Chicago, the source said.<\/p>\n
Woodfin\u2019s alleged Facebook postings drew keen interest from law enforcement agencies because of the murders of New York Police Officers Ralph Ramos and Wenjian Liu on Dec. 20. They were shot to death without warning while sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Before those murders, the gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, posted online comments about the killings of unarmed black men by white police officers.<\/p>\n
He pointed to the killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in New York City. Brinsley killed himself in a subway station after he shot the officers.<\/p>\n
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Source: NBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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