Check Out This Einstein

Out on bail with a helluva story:

• Around 1:45 p.m. on April 12, Chicago police responded to calls of a man with a gun provoking people on the street near 130th and Indiana on the Far South Side. They saw Christopher Woods in the area and thought he matched the suspect’s description, according to a report they filed later.

  As the officers stepped out of their squad car to speak with Woods, one of them noticed he was holding a gun inside his right jacket pocket, the report said. The other officer saw the grip of a firearm.

  Woods, 45, complied with the officers’ commands and they recovered the loaded pistol from his pocket, according to the report.

  The officers’ report said he “was going to turn the firearm in.”

Sure he was. People with guns always want to turn them in.

And then....:

• Prosecutors charged Woods with Class X armed habitual criminal because he has been convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm twice before. However, they did not ask Judge Charles Beach to detain Woods during his court appearance on April 13, so the judge sent him home.

  Less than 24 hours later, around 12:45 p.m. on April 14, Woods flagged down a CPD tactical unit near 116th and Michigan.

  He told the officers that “he wanted to turn a gun in as well as turn himself in,” the officers wrote in their report, adding that Woods told them he had a gun in his jacket pocket.

  The officers recovered a loaded revolver and a box containing 48 rounds of ammunition from his jacket, the report said.

Good Lord....we guess he really really wanted to turn in a gun so badly, he went out and found another one within fourteen hours.

For those keeping track at home, he has somehow acquired at least FOUR different guns, while being a felon, and without the benefit of an FOID card.