Gun reported, police chase down bus

WADSWORTH, Ill. — Reports of a man armed with a gun and threatening to kill fellow passengers on a Greyhound bus led to a police chase of the vehicle that started in Wisconsin and ended in northern Illinois.

None of the 40 people aboard the bus bound for Chicago from Milwaukee on Friday night was injured, and the suspect was taken into custody after authorities, using spike strips to flatten the tires, forced the bus to stop on Interstate 94 near the Illinois community of Wadsworth. Authorities said they began chasing the bus after getting a call from someone onboard.

One passenger, Patrick Dodd, told the Chicago Tribune that the incident began when the man who said he had a gun started to threaten passengers in the back of the bus. Dodd said the man pulled something out of his pants that Dodd believed may have been a weapon.