Last night, Racine County, Wisconsin Sheriff’s received reports of an armed man on a Greyhound bus from Milwaukee to Chicago, WISN-TV reported. The man was threatening to kill other passengers.
Racine County Sheriffs Deputies chased the man into Lake County, Illinois. During the chase, passengers were yelling at the man to stop the bus. Eventually the deputies had to use spike strips to stop the bus.
This afternoon, it has come to light that the suspect, 31-year-old Margarito Vargas-Rosas, is an illegal immigrant who lives in Chicago and works at a restaurant in Milwaukee.
According to the Racine County Sheriff’s office, the bus has been seized and they’re working on locating a firearm. They also said Vargas-Rosas is being held on making terrorist threats.
#BREAKING first look at the suspect in last night's Greyhound bus pursuit. He was a passenger and was threatening to kill other passengers, indicating that he had a gun. Charged with making terroristic threats @WISN12News pic.twitter.com/XXer4KhVNb
— Tim Elliott NBC15 (@TheTimReport) January 13, 2018
Eek.
Sheriff Schmaling says passenger on #Greyhound bus lives in #Chicago but works at a restaurant in #Milwaukee. He threatened to kill other passengers. He's here illegally and was previously deported. No gun was found at this time. All 37 passengers are ok. @WISN12News
— Ben Hutchison (@Ben__Hutchison) January 13, 2018
At least all of the passengers came out unharmed.
LIVE: Racine County sheriff holds news conference on Greyhound bus incident https://t.co/1FZGKtUgd3 pic.twitter.com/OLYEGzLlrq
— WISN 12 NEWS (@WISN12News) January 13, 2018
Sheriff: Passenger threatened to kill others; Greyhound driver thought it was training incident https://t.co/BDAAzkoWTj pic.twitter.com/NFpaGkSYjd
— WISN 12 NEWS (@WISN12News) January 13, 2018
That’d be a hell of a training incident.
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