Last month, Chicago police received a ShotSpotter alarm at an address where a man was on house arrest for a pending felony gun charge. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office decided to visit him.
According to court records, they performed a “compliance check” at Tracy Conley’s house in the 900 block of West 131st Street to ensure that he was following all of the county’s electronic monitoring regulations.
According to the papers, they removed Conley’s electronic monitoring bracelet charger from a sofa and discovered a loaded machine gun with an extended magazine and another loaded handgun with an extended magazine beneath the cushions.
Officers allegedly discovered $1,180 in cash, a digital scale, 384 suspected ecstasy tablets, 707 grams of cannabis, and an aftermarket “sear switch” that can transform some semi-automatic weapons into machine guns in a nearby rucksack.
He is charged with two counts of Class X armed habitual criminal, two charges of illegal use of a machine gun by a felon, possession of cannabis, possession of ecstasy, and violating pretrial release by possessing a gun.
Conley was under electronic monitoring while awaiting trial on Class X armed habitual criminal charges, according to prosecutors in a detention petition. They informed Judge Maryam Ahmad that Conley has prior convictions for felony firearm usage and robbery.
Ahmad approved the petition.