- A custodian for a West Side police station allegedly stole a Chicago Police officer’s iPhone while he was in roll call preparing for his midnight shift late Thursday night, police said. Epifania Bahena, 35, of the 8900 block of South Exchange Avenue, was charged with misdemeanor theft...
Interesting how a story over a cell phone makes the papers, but a scandal involving the Evidence and Recovered Property Section, that has the potential to derail hundreds, maybe thousands of criminal cases, even if it's just motions to produce evidence in a courtroom, produces nary a whisper in the media.
As a comparison, look at this missing three kilos from the suburbs:
- Before three kilos of heroin were swiped from a Will County sheriff’s outdoor evidence storage container in October, someone parked a “food delivery truck” so it blocked a lone surveillance camera’s view of the container, a prosecutor said in court today.
The truck was parked there from the early evening until the next morning, assistant state’s attorney Michael Knick told a judge this morning, not specifying the date. Investigators who reviewed about 168 hours of surveillance video believe the drugs were stolen during that time, he said. The theft was discovered on Oct. 14.
The heroin is tied to a drug case against Jose Zamago-Pena, accused of transporting drugs for a Mexican cartel using a semi with California plates.
That's a big deal in Will County. But in Cook County? Not so much.