For the eighth time this year, police have made a firearm-related arrest in or near the Naperville Topgolf parking lot.
Dannie Thompson, 35, of Chicago, was taken into custody outside the 3211 Odyssey Court business just after midnight Saturday on a felony charge of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon. His next court appearance is scheduled for April 29, according to DuPage County Circuit Court records.
While patrolling the Topgolf lot, officers approached “an unoccupied vehicle and observed a firearm on the driver’s floorboard, an opened bottle of tequila on the front passenger floorboard, and a plastic cup in the center console containing what appeared to be tequila,” Naperville police spokeswoman Kelley Munch said in an emailed statement.
When the driver, later identified as Thompson, returned to the vehicle, officers made contact, recovered the firearm and discovered that Thompson’s Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) card was expired, Munch said.
Munch confirmed that with Thompson’s arrest, there have been a total of eight firearm-related busts in or near the Naperville Topgolf parking lot this year.
Most recently, police made three such arrests in one week earlier this month.
After a nearly four-month break, gun-related arrests outside the Naperville Topgolf started up again in early February.
Ahead of this year, Naperville police made 25 arrests on gun-related offenses in the facility’s lot between August 2023 and October 2024.
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