Overview
- A federal indictment filed Jan. 7 alleges the 9 mm recovered from Gómez matches two shell casings found near 25th and Kedzie during Operation Midway Blitz.
- Gómez, 45, now faces counts of possession of a firearm by a felon and possession by a previously deported alien, with an arraignment date not yet set.
- Prosecutors did not charge Gómez with firing at agents and did not place the weapon in his hand at the time shots were reportedly fired.
- Chicago police later found Gómez in a black Jeep at the Aguascalientes parking lot with a gun in his lap after witnesses said he laughed and pointed the weapon at a woman.
- Homeland Security initially said a man in a black Jeep fired at agents and fled; Gómez is among at least 31 people charged in cases tied to the operation, with 14 dismissals and no convictions to date.