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Reese1106
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Please send some prayers for my best friend...
She sent me a text this morning regarding the story below. She's on the train right now and is scared out of her mind. They're not telling the passengers much and are not letting the passengers in her car or the one's near it off the train. She's a mom to 2 little girls..ages 5 and 1. If you can, please send some prayers that the situation is resolved and she gets home to her girls safe and sound.   Thank you! I'm so scared for her. She lives in Naperville which is about 45 mins outside of downtown Chicago.
Metra train halted; passengers searched
January 14, 2009 9:39 AM | No Comments
Metra BNSF Line trains were stopped in the western suburbs this morning as police armed with semiautomatic weapons evacuated and searched train passengers in Lisle, officials said.
Metra spokesman Tom Miller said the No. 1252 express train had been stopped at the Lisle station since about 8 a.m., but only said "police activity" was the reason and had no further comment.
The express train, scheduled to arrive at Chicago's Union Station at 8:34 a.m., was not scheduled to stop at the Lisle.
Police were contacted after a ticket agent called 911, saying a suspicious man was asking "unusual questions that were security-based" at the Naperville Metra station, Cmdr. Dave Hoffman said. It was unknown if the man got on the train so authorities decided to stop it near Lisle to search for the man, he said.
A source said someone reported overhearing a male passenger say he had a gun and called police from a cell phone. Hoffman could not comment on the report and Lisle police could not immediately comment.
Several hundred passengers from the emptied cars were milling about in the Lisle station this morning after authorities cleared several of the train cars.
A rider said a message over the intercom told passengers to take a seat and that cars would be evacuated one at a time and riders would be searched. The train, which was stopped on the middle track of the three-track rail, had last stopped in Naperville before heading toward Chicago.
The rider, who asked not to be named, said riders on his packed train were waiting to be taken off their car.
"Everybody's calling in work, sending in e-mails, stuff like that," he said.
-- Staff report
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Re: Please send some prayers for my best friend...
wow that is crazy. I really hope shes ok!!
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Re: Please send some prayers for my best friend...
OMG how scary, I hope its resolved and everyones safe!!
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I hope they are okay!!!!
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Ang-Rich
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Re: Please send some prayers for my best friend...
I got chills reading that. she is okay 
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nbc188
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Hope everyone is okay!
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SuzyQ
Mama to 3!?!?!?
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Re: Please send some prayers for my best friend...
I live in Naperville too. How awful. I don't have the news on & had no idea. 
ETA: I hope she (& everyone else on that train) will be ok.
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saraH
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I know that God exsists, I held her in my arms...
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lvdolphins
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jellybean78
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chelle
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Isn't it obvious?
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SuzyQ
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Re: Please send some prayers for my best friend...
Posted by SuzyQ
I live in Naperville too. How awful. I don't have the news on & had no idea.
ETA: I hope she (& everyone else on that train) will be ok.
I had the midday news on earlier and they didn't say anything about this. Hopefullly it's been resolved safely.
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waterspout4
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Re: Please send some prayers for my best friend...
I hope it has been resolved.
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| Posted 1/14/09 2:13 PM |
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dawnygirl25
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omg, thats so scary! I hope they are OK!
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SuzyQ
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Re: Please send some prayers for my best friend...
I just read on the Chicago Tribune's website that the man with the gun was a Secret Service Agent.
'Suspicious' rider was Secret Service agent
January 14, 2009 11:39 AM | 29 Comments
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The suspicious person who caused an unscheduled two-hour stop for a Metra train this morning and a search of its passengers was a U.S. Secret Service agent.
Metra spokeswoman Judy Pardonnet said the incident began when a plainclothes Secret Service agent asked a Naperville ticket agent whether there were metal detectors aboard the BNSF Line train and indicated he was carrying a gun.
"He did not identify himself as any type of law-enforcement officer. That concerned the ticket agent," Pardonnet said.
(Tribune photo)
The ticket agent called BNSF police, who in turn called Lisle police.
The express train departed the downtown Naperville station at 8 a.m., then made an unscheduled stop in Lisle. Lisle police boarded the train and searched 2 1/2 cars before finding the man.
Pardonnet said Lisle police checked the agent's credentials. He left the train with Lisle police. Metra trains began running again at 9:40 a.m., Pardonnet said.
Pardonnet said the Secret Service agent had never taken the train before.
"Apparently he was unfamiliar with the system," she said. "He was riding it today because it was snowing."
Pardonnet said the ticket agent acted properly.
Sergeant Ron Wilke of the Lisle Police Department said no charges would be filed, and he declined to identify the agent.
"It sounds like it was a miscommunication," Wilke said. "It probably should've been handled better from their end."
The incident stopped train service in the western suburbs this morning as police armed with semiautomatic rifles evacuated and searched train passengers at the Lisle station.
More than 1 1/2 hours later, passengers were allowed to reboard the No. 1252 express train. Service then resumed on the line.
The ticket agent had told police a suspicious man was asking "unusual questions that were security-based" at the Naperville Metra station, Naperville Police Cmdr. Dave Hoffman had said. Officers were unsure if the man got on the train so authorities decided to stop it near Lisle to search for him, he said.
Kristina Schmidt of the Secret Service office in Chicago said the agency is aware of the situation and was gathering information. "We want to get all the details, and we should know more soon," Schmidt said.
Several hundred passengers from the emptied cars milled about in the Lisle station this morning after authorities cleared several of the train's cars. About 9:45 a.m., passengers began rushing to get back onto the train after they were told the train was safe.
-- Staff report
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Wow....handled better is right. Just glad everyone was okay.
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littlejoy06
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jprimrose
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My4GirlsMyLife
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Any updates?
ETA : NM I just saw it !!
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Reese1106
Family of 4! :o)
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Re: Please send some prayers for my best friend...
Thanks for all the prayers. She sent me the update about the secret service agent. It's good they were playing it safe but it must have been very nerve-wracking for all the passengers. 
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DmarieK
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