- A Chicago police officer and former member of the department’s now disgraced Special Operations Section pleaded guilty today to a federal misdemeanor civil rights charge that stemmed from his false arrest of a suspect in 2004.
Eric Olsen, 38, pleaded guilty to falsely stating in a report that he saw the suspect drinking alcohol in front of a Chicago tavern and then conducted a search, finding cocaine in the suspect’s waistband, according to court documents.
Olsen’s sentencing was set for Aug. 23 in federal court. He faces up to a year in prison.
Only one name left after yesterday.
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On the brighter side, another high bail by Judge Bourgeois:
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On the brighter side, another high bail by Judge Bourgeois:
- Two men were ordered held on bail today after being charged with breaking into cars in a hospital parking lot and trying to run down several off-duty police officers, officials said.
The incident happened Monday in the parking lot of Resurrection Medical Center in the 7500 block of East Talcott Avenue, police said.
Several off-duty police officers spotted two men in the parking lot breaking into vehicles.
The officers identified themselves as police and ordered the men to stop, but they instead got into a vehicle and started fleeing the scene, police said. In the process, police said, the man tried to run down pedestrians, including one of the officers. - Both men were ordered held on $300,000 bail by Criminal Court Judge Adam Bourgeois
Good job by all the officers, on and off duty at the scene.