Posts Tagged ‘chicago’
Five Years for Cop Who Fired 16 Bullets Into Car of Teens
Marco Proano, 42, a former Chicago police officer, was sentenced to five years in federal prison on December 4, 2017 for unloading his weapon on a car full of teenagers in 2015. Proano, an 11-year veteran of the force, was indicted in September 2016 for using unreasonable force on the teens. The Chicago Reporter obtained…
Read MoreIn Historic Move, 15 Cases Related to Crooked Chicago Cop Thrown Out
Cook County, Illinois Chief Criminal Judge LeRoy Martin tossed the convictions of 15 criminal defendants on November 16, 2017 because the cases were linked to disgraced former Chicago Police Sergeant Ronald Watts. All of the men whose cases were overturned claimed that they had been framed by Watts, who went to federal prison in 2013…
Read More$1,000,000 Jury Verdict Against Sheriff Who Engaged in Political Retaliation
A Chicago area jury awarded $1,000,000 to a DuPage County Sheriff’s deputy who claimed that she was passed over for a promotion because she didn’t support the Sheriff’s political campaign. Susan Lakics was a longtime employee of the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office. In her decade of service as an officer, she received perfect and near…
Read MoreChicago Men Arrested For Failing to Register As A Sex Offender After Being Turned Away By Chicago Police Department
By Chris Zoukis On at least 601 occasions in the first three months of 2014, men who appeared at the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to register as sex offenders were turned away, because police were too busy to register them. On numerous occasions, the would-be registrants were later arrested for failing to comply with the…
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