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A man accused in August with pointing a loaded handgun at three people outside a Brookfield bar is back in state prison after entering a guilty plea to two felony charges earlier this month.
On Nov. 13, Cook County Judge Carol Kipperman sentenced Stanley Wisniowicz, 47, to seven years after Wisniowicz pleaded guilty to being an armed habitual criminal, a Class X felony, and being in possession of a stolen firearm, a Class 2 felony.
Wisniowicz, who was on parole and reportedly staying with relatives in Brookfield at the time of his Aug. 4 arrest, is in custody at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center.
According to Brookfield police, Wisniowicz got into a verbal altercation with three people outside of an Ogden Avenue bar in the early morning hours of Aug. 4 and pointed a loaded .45-caliber Smith & Wesson semiautomatic pistol at the trio.
He fled the scene before police arrived and was not in possession of the gun when authorities found him at the corner of Eberly and Ogden Avenues in LaGrange. A police dog located the handgun about two hours later behind some bushes near the Brookfield Moose property in the 4000 block of DuBois Boulevard.
Police learned that the gun was reported stolen by a Brookfield resident whose home had been burglarized in July. When found, the weapon had six bullets in the clip and one in the chamber.
When arrested, Wisniowicz was on parole for a 2008 theft conviction. Since 1986, he has been in and out of state prison. In 2001, he was convicted of three counts of residential burglary and sentenced to 10 years. He was previously convicted of residential burglary in 1987 and 1997.