Illinois police officer shot and killed; 3 suspects at large

[EL PRESIDENTE]

This new version sounds too convenient. Story is still fishy. He was murdered.

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[stampedehero]

Illinois police officer, mourned as hero slain in line of duty, was embezzler who committed suicide

ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. — A police officer, lauded as a hero after his fatal shooting triggered an intense and costly manhunt, in fact committed suicide, carefully staging his death because he was about to be exposed as a thief, authorities said Wednesday.

Fox Lake Police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz embezzled thousands of dollars from the Fox Lake Police Explorer program for seven years, and he spent the money on such things as mortgage payments, travel expenses, gym memberships and adult websites, said Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Commander George Filenko.

"We have determined this staged suicide was the end result of extensive criminal acts that Gliniewicz had been committing. In fact he was under increasing levels of personal stress from scrutiny of his management of the Fox Lake Police Explorer program," Filenko said.

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Just before he died, Gliniewicz radioed that he was chasing three suspicious men in a swampy area near Fox Lake, a suburb north of Chicago. Backup officers later found the Army veteran's body about 50 yards from his squad car. His handgun wasn't found for more than an hour, even though it was less than three feet from the body, Filenko said.

Gliniewicz's death on Sept. 1 set off a large manhunt, with hundreds of officers searching houses, cabins and even boats on lakes. Helicopters with heat-sensing scanners and K-9 units scoured the area for days. About 50 suburban Chicago police departments and sheriff's offices assisted, racking up more than $300,000 in overtime and other costs, according to an analysis that the Daily Herald newspaper published in early October.

More than 100 people submitted to DNA tests as investigators sought matches to evidence collected at the crime scene — genetic tests that Filenko said ultimately found nothing. Asked Wednesday whether that evidence will now be destroyed, Filenko said he didn't know.

http://www.oregonlive.com/today/ind..._police_officer_mourne.html#incart_river_home

It is bizzare. A one in a million event. Law enforcement did what they normally would do based on that broadcast. Officer Gliniewicz did injustice to his fellow brothers.

 

[dviss1]

This new version sounds too convenient. Story is still fishy. He was murdered.

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Murdered by black people? Yeah... Do you truly think that the police would come out and say that he killed himself if that were true? Wow... Some people are stuck in disbelief for no reason. He was painted as a GI Joe American hero. In actuality he was quite the opposite. But no, let's blame black people and BLM for his death and for this so called anti-police climate. It's bullshit... He was just another crooked cop in an industry that's full of them...

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I didn't even know there were blacks involved. Or how he was portrayed. I read the revised story with the new theory not knowing about the case at all. The way it sounded and embezzlement seems like it was a hit. Just a hunch.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

The hit would have come from within the police dept

 

[SlyPokerDog]

The hit would have come from within the police dept

By black police officers?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

asian ones.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I didn't even know there were blacks involved. Or how he was portrayed. I read the revised story with the new theory not knowing about the case at all. The way it sounded and embezzlement seems like it was a hit. Just a hunch.

One story I saw on the news was there were multiple federal agencies involved immediately after the shooting, about the 3rd day in they knew it was BS so they packed up and left. If it were a cop killing cop thing they would have stuck around.