Updated Info on Omhari Sengstacke
Omhari Sengstacke, 31, of Chicago, was apparently intoxicated but not armed when he was arrested about 6:30 a.m.
There was no telephone listing for an Omhari Sengstacke in Chicago.
Sengstacke did not utter any threats against Obama or make any threatening gestures before his arrest, and he never breached the outermost perimeter of multiple security layers, U.S. Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley said.
Police charged Sengstacke, a relative of a prominent Chicago family on Tuesday with possession of a firearm by a felon after he approached security barriers outside Barack Obama’s home, though the U.S. Secret Service insisted he never posed a threat to the Democratic presidential candidate.
CHICAGO A member of a prominent Chicago family faces a felony gun charge after being arrested Tuesday when he approached security barriers outside Barack Obama’s home.
CHICAGO A member of a prominent Chicago family faces a felony gun charge after being arrested Tuesday when he approached security barriers outside Barack Obama’s home.
A photo released Tuesaday by the Chicago Police Department shows Omhari Sengstacke.
A photo released Tuesaday, Sept. 23, 2008 by the Chicago Police Department shows Omhari Sengstacke.
CHICAGO A member of a prominent Chicago family faces a felony gun charge after being arrested Tuesday when he approached security barriers outside Barack Obama’s home.
Police found a gun and a bulletproof vest in his car nearby.
Discovery of the gun, Wiley said, did not change the Secret Service’s view that Sengstacke never constituted a threat.
The fact that Sengstacke did not have the firearm with him at the time of his arrest “is proof that he had no ill intent toward the presidential candidate,” the family said.
The U.S. Secret Service insisted he never posed a threat to the Democratic presidential candidate.
The more serious charge accuses him of possessing a firearm while being a felon.
A member of a prominent Chicago family faces a felony gun charge after being arrested Tuesday when he approached security barriers outside Barack Obama’s home.
“There are probably hundreds of people a day who are in, near or at that checkpoint who have a weapon in their car that they’re not supposed to have,” he said.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported he had convictions on theft for stealing a cell phone and forgery for trying to use a fake traveler’s check; he received probation both times.
“There are probably hundreds of people a day who are in, near or at that checkpoint who have a weapon in their car that they’re not supposed to have,” he said.
In 2004, Sengstacke was convicted of theft for stealing a cell phone and in 2006, he was convicted of forgery for trying to buy clothing with a fake travelers check; he received probation both times, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported he had convictions on theft for stealing a cell phone and forgery for trying to use a fake traveler’s check; he received probation both times.
Police spokesman O’Brien did not immediately say what specifically Sengstacke did to prompt his arrest.
Police spokesman O’Brien did not immediately say what specifically Sengstacke did to prompt his arrest.
Police spokesman O’Brien did not immediately say what specifically Sengstacke did to prompt his arrest.
CHICAGO — A member of a prominent Chicago family faces a felony gun charge after being arrested Tuesday when he approached security barriers outside Barack Obama’s home.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported he had convictions on theft for stealing a cell phone and forgery for trying to use a fake traveler’s check; he received probation both times.
In 2001, Omhari Sengstacke attended a ceremony at the White House when then-President Bill Clinton awarded his grandfather the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously, the Defender reported at the time.
Omhari Sengstacke is the grandson of John Sengstacke, publisher of the Chicago Defender for decades until his death in 1997.
Associated Press Writer Caryn Rousseau in Chicago contributed to this report.
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The black-owned newspaper gained prominence in the early 20th century by campaigning against Jim Crow segregation policies, a crusade that sparked the migration of blacks from the rural South to the industrial North.
