Earlier Confrontations With Police
On both December 10 and 13th, 1978, Chicago police were contacted by Allen's common-law wife, Bianca Smith, who complained of having "problems" with Allen, and that he was heavily armed. Officers were both times dispatched to Allen and Smith's residence to deal with the domestic complaints. The second time, Allen was refusing Smith entry to their shared residence, and demonstrated his willingness to continue to do so by brandishing various firearms at police from his front doorstep and telling the officers "the next fucking pig that puts his foot on my property, I'm going to blow his head off" and "you motherfuckers are all going to pay for this."
Eventually, after a nineteen hour standoff and in front of several Chicago TV crews, Allen surrendered to the police without a shot being fired.
While Allen was incarcerated pending bail for this incident, Judge Everette Braden issued a search warrant for Allen's home. It was executed later that day, while Allen was still in jail, whereupon officers retrieved the following firearms:
- one Colt .45 semiautomatic pistol
- one Smith & Wesson revolver, model 27
- one Smith & Wesson revolver, model 57 (highly similar or identical to the S&W Model 29)
- one Colt .357 Python revolver
- one .44 Ruger Super Blackhawk revolver
- one Winslow 7mm rifle
- one Weatherby 12-gauge shotgun
Along with over a thousand rounds of various kinds of ammunition. Officers on the scene of the standoff claimed to have seen Allen at times bearing a gun that appeared to be an M16 rifle, however no such gun was recovered by the officers executing the search warrant.
Upon returning home from jail, Allen was furious that his guns had been confiscated. He contacted lawyer Kermit Coleman to sue for their return, but was informed it was unlikely he would ever get them back from the police.
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