Bad News Day Part 1
Four Harvey police officers, 10 Cook County jail guards and a Chicago police officer have been charged with providing muscle for what they thought were major drug deals - but were really fake transactions that were part of an FBI sting.
In one of the largest crackdowns on law enforcement officers in recent years, the FBI is accusing the officers of accepting between $400 and $4,000 each on one or more occasions to serve as lookouts and intervene if police or rival drug dealers attempted to interfere with shipments of cocaine and heroin.
A twin-propeller plane landed at the west suburban DuPage Airport, where they boarded and began counting what they thought was 80 kilograms of cocaine stashed in four duffel bags, according to federal authorities.
They allegedly took the bags to the undercover FBI agent's car and watched as another undercover agent pulled up in a Mercedes, took the bags and drove off.
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
67 Comments:
Great job by the FBI--I hope they get more of these mother-f------!! Jokers like this make the rest of us hard working officers look bad!
Who's this lone Chicago guy? What an asshat!
Harvey? Never would have guessed.
Fish in a barrel??
This isn't a BAD NEWS DAY, this is good one. Another screw ball off the job, and into the joint. I've been on this job a long time, and guy's pulling this shit don't belong with us. In almost twenty years I've only seen 1 cop go down by the Fed's that shouldn't, and thats the Cozzi fella. Every one else deserved what they got. Anyone care to disagree?
Another one year wonder, literally. The CPD idot just passed his one year anniversary in October.
$500 dollars in exchange for a possible 20 years? Let's see, that's $25 per year or $.06 a day. Hope it was all worth it, idiot!
Just to let you know, Wilson was not on the job when his part occurred. His part occurred on October 24 2007 but his appointment date is October 27 2007
Is this entrapment? Was the only reason for this to simply to coerce peace officers to BREAK THE LAW? Dumb ass cops regardless. WOW!
The Feebs did the same scam during the Austin 7 investigation.
They could not use it during the trial because the undercover FBI agent, who was from New Orleans, returned to that assignment and was caught selling kilos by DEA.
The US Attorney in Louisiana allowed him to plea guilty for only two years imprisonment. They did not want bad publicity for the FBI.
Would Fitzgerald allow a CPD officer the same break? I doubt it!
I remember IAD planting $800.00 in my car. I had to laugh because they were fresh bills consecutively numbered. I should have inventoried $801.00 and fucked with their silly little minds. They could have put 80 grand in the car and I still would have turned it in. Think of the hell you would be put through if they nail you on theft or bribery charges. Some people just can't and won't think. Just isn't worth it!
Why don't they infiltrate the city council & mayors office?!
Deserve to be caught- what goofs. How dumb can you be?
old retired guy
"The feebs also staged a high stakes poker game"
Those unimaginitive "G" dullards
stoled that from the SOPRANOS!
Is that all they could get a Copper on, security for a Mob game?
If thats the case ,then all those clout assholes guarding the st. prick and co. should be charged!!
I heard the Chicago Police officer was a PPO too!
Whooops!
I remember IAD planting $800.00 in my car. I had to laugh because they were fresh bills consecutively numbered. I should have inventoried $801.00 and fucked with their silly little minds. They could have put 80 grand in the car and I still would have turned it in. Think of the hell you would be put through if they nail you on theft or bribery charges. Some people just can't and won't think. Just isn't worth it!
12/03/2008 04:54:00 AM
Delusional. IAD "planted" money? Really? Ok...
HAHAHAHA what do you expect from the sheriffs Dept.?????? Deputies are dumber than the day is long in Scandinavia!!! And Harvey???? HAHAHAHHAHA Thats definately a surprise!!
I heard that there might be a connect between one of the officers arrsted and the Metra officer, Thomas Cook, that was shot and killed several years ago. Apparently, one of the arrested had a part-time job with Metra, unrelated to law enforcement.
10 Cook County jail guards,
4 Harvey police officers,
1 Chicago police officer
. . . sounds like a Christmas song!
wow!!!! crooked cops from ccdoc and from harvey....what a shocker. the cpd cop was a ppo from 005
this is good news, west cide - po
HAHAHAHA what do you expect from the sheriffs Dept.?????? Deputies are dumber than the day is long in Scandinavia!!! And Harvey???? HAHAHAHHAHA Thats definately a surprise!!
Chicago has had it's share of geniuses as of late. C'mon man, an idiot is an idiot no matter where he works.
I am not too surprised about this kind of thing. There are plenty of dirty cops around the Chicago area. About all you can do is root a few out now and then to serve as an example to the rest of them.
One wants to think that cops feel some special duty to behave themselves, but time has shown that just isn't the way it is. Cops are subject to the same temptations as every one is, and some succumb.
And let's not forget that one of the Harvey officers was the first one to find slain Harvey police officer Thomas Cook last year. Just happened to be passing by huh? Think there may be more to this story?
I don't mind that they got the police, but you would think they would put all those resources into getting the drug dealers...but that wont get you elected. Now tell me your working nights, partner comes over and says "good gig few hundred an hour here is the number" you will say???We are all side job hores, jewlery escorts, banks, security for money drops...if the city paid us we wouldnt have to be working three diffrent side jobs to get by. Im jealous of my neighbor he works and comes home..I work and go to another job, but mine isn't security for dope deals,I dont think
Great job by the FBI--I hope they get more of these mother-f------!!
At this point, thats all the FBI is good for.
Here's a radical idea. Why don't the FBI interrupt some REAL drug deals and grab some serious dudes committing a genuine crime, not something set up by one of their paid snitches? Answer, because they couldn't find their own bare asses with both hands. They make about 150 grand a year, can retire at 50 with 3/4 pay, adjusted up for inflation, and get a sweet little part-time job, like Super. of police in Chicago, but can't uncover a crime that they didn't arrange for ahead of time. I dealt with these prima donnas for years as a dick, and wouldn't piss on one if he was on fire.
Fuck the Harvey Police stay out of that God forsaken shithole with its ignorant useless police.
If you ever stop one don't give them any courtesy.
OK - I'll do my part.
Send these lads over, I will "entertain" them in my new media room in the cellar.
Never had much use for POS like this, gives hard working "Docs" like myself a bad name.
Harvey?? Did anyone tell Tom Dreesen?
IAD will never plant that much money at one time. There is no reasons for a crook to leave usc in a car unless its comingle with a substance. That amount of money even with a stupid cop would raise eyebrows. Plant money will most likely be in multiple denominations and just enough to look like it could have been overlooked or forgotten. Enough to make a person think they have found something to get away with and not have anyone immediately miss it,
Fuck him and everyone like him.
Anonymous said...
Just to let you know, Wilson was not on the job when his part occurred. His part occurred on October 24 2007 but his appointment date is October 27 2007
12/03/2008 01:25:00 AM
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Perhaps he only got caught one time, doesn't mean he only did it one time. Or did he just turn over a new leaf three days later?
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Would Fitzgerald allow a CPD officer the same break? I doubt it!
12/03/2008 04:24:00 AM
Good, if you pull this shit you don't deserve a break.
Now something like Cozzi did does deserve a break.
The stupid thing is that DuPage Airport (DPA) is crawling with Feds that hangar aircraft on the field.
If you're going to be a corrupt cop atleast be smart about it. But then any real cop with half a brain wouldn't do something stupid like this.
Hope the chump change they made on the side was worth the destruction of their careers, families, and the next 10-20 years of their lives spent in prison.
To all the coppers out there worried about the proverbial set-up, just do the right thing and you will always be ok.
If you can't get by on your current salaries cut back on the ho's, clothes and blows.
These thugs don't become the Police to serve and protect, they do it as a means to continue their criminal activities.
Very similar to the pedophiles who enter professions of authority to have access to kids (i.e. clergy, teaching).
HAHAHAHA what do you expect from the sheriffs Dept.?????? Deputies are dumber than the day is long in Scandinavia!!
funny have you forgotten all the shit that happens in your dept.? ..oh does S.O.S. ring a bell? We all work with some real dumb asses and I am embarassed by the dumb shit some do , but like you I take pride in job and dept.,and for you to insult me by saying we're all dumb is like me calling all P.O.'s lazy,thieving, bartender beating crooked cops. All should not be judged by the stupid actions of a few.You don't like it when it's done to you
anybody got LIST of the correctional officers indictaed?
Of course they publishe d the names of soem Harvey coppers and the CPD one...
but didtn name the county guys of course.
We are all side job hores, jewlery escorts, banks, security for money drops...if the city paid us we wouldnt have to be working three diffrent side jobs to get by. Im jealous of my neighbor he works and comes home..
12/03/2008 10:16:00 AM
Speak for yourself moron. I'm not a whore and I'm proud of how hard i work for my family, both on the job and on side jobs. Instead of being jealous of your neighbor why not take moment to appreciate what YOU have? You guys who think the grass is so much greener next door just make me laugh! If you can't take the heat, youngster, go work somewhere else...(Maybe go back to school first and learn to spell)
All of the parties involved have been named. I read the 61 page affidavit yesterday on the sun times on-line.
Anonymous said...
Of course they publishe d the names of soem Harvey coppers and the CPD one...
but didtn name the county guys of course.
12/03/2008 03:26:00 PM
Of course not, because they're all related to Todd Stroger.
anybody got LIST of the correctional officers indictaed?
Indictaed??
they are all named in the arrest, read the articles
Proud Deputy.
Your right. Good point.
Anonymous said...
Just to let you know, Wilson was not on the job when his part occurred. His part occurred on October 24 2007 but his appointment date is October 27 2007
12/03/2008 01:25:00 AM
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Perhaps he only got caught one time, doesn't mean he only did it one time. Or did he just turn over a new leaf three days later?
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What I'm saying, he was not the police when he did his dirt, now when he was arrested he was but not when he committed his crime.
the names of the scumbags
-- Tavis Ramsey, 31, of Chicago;
-- Dwayne Williams, 42, of Country Club Hills;
-- Antoine D. Dudley, 28, of Harvey, Harvey police officer;
-- James Engram, Jr., 41, of Calumet City, Harvey police officer;
-- Kyle T. Wilson, 31, of Chicago, Chicago police officer;
-- Timothy Funches, 26, of Bellwood, sheriff's officer;
-- Diallo Mingo, 34, of Calumet City, sheriff's officer;
-- Antwon Funches, 34, of Chicago, sheriff’s officer:
-- Antonio B. McCaskill, 30, of Harvey:
-- Richard O. Hall Jr., 35, of Chicago, sheriff's officer;
-- Robert L. Kelly, 32, of Glenwood, sheriff’s officer:
-- Daniel L. Lee, 31, of Chicago, sheriff's officer: and
-- Julius L. Scott Jr. , 34, of Richton Park, sheriff’s officer.
from myfoxchicago.com
"but didtn name the county guys of course."
What are you talking about?
Do not know how to read a newspaper or use a search engine?
All of the names have been listed by multiple news outlets.
Deputies are dumber than the day is long in Scandinavia!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, keep the Scandinavians out of this.
Signed:
Hagar the Horrible
haaaaa haaaa haaaa lmao lol,,,, great one
10 Cook County jail guards,
4 Harvey police officers,
1 Chicago police officer
. . . sounds like a Christmas song!
12/03/2008 08:30:00 AM
I heard that there might be a connect between one of the officers arrsted and the Metra officer, Thomas Cook, that was shot and killed several years ago. Apparently, one of the arrested had a part-time job with Metra, unrelated to law enforcement.
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I strongly feel that mentioning Officer Cook in any way in relation to this case is reprehensible. It is innuendo of the lowest form. The writer of this comment should be ashamed. I don't care what the connection is. The man is dead. Let him rest.
I heard that there might be a connect between one of the officers arrsted and the Metra officer, Thomas Cook, that was shot and killed several years ago. Apparently, one of the arrested had a part-time job with Metra, unrelated to law enforcement.
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I strongly feel that mentioning Officer Cook in any way in relation to this case is reprehensible. It is innuendo of the lowest form. The writer of this comment should be ashamed. I don't care what the connection is. The man is dead. Let him rest.
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I agree, let him rest...but, also how about finding the man that killed him and destroyed the many lives of his family and friends to give them closure... do you really feel that a person that murdered a police officer should be able to stay on the streets? If one of these guys is responsible then find out and give that family some justice! also, one of the men arrested who is a harvey p.o. also was the first to find the officer.. not saying there is a connection but if there is, hopefully good detectives can find out the truth.. officer cook, rest well brother you will be avenged and never forgotten.
Browneye said...
HAHAHAHA what do you expect from the sheriffs Dept.?????? Deputies are dumber than the day is long in Scandinavia!!! And Harvey???? HAHAHAHHAHA Thats definately a surprise!!
12/03/2008 08:13:00 AM
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You're a MORON!!!
The ppo was arrested for a crime he commited 7 days before becoming a cop. The fbi and city new this and still allowed him to become a cop. Who's bright idea was this?
not saying there is a connection but if there is, hopefully good detectives can find out the truth.. officer cook, rest well brother you will be avenged and never forgotten.
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I agree. If these dumb ass now disgraced officers can shed any light on the murder of PO Cook, then offer them a deal and have at it. I still maintain that until such evidence or testimony comes forth, the good name of our dead brother should not be sullied by mention in any form with these goofs.
RIP Officer Cook.
Wasn't Harvey the suburb where there were eight unsolved homicides when the State's Attorney's office took over all homicide investigations?
They cleared six of them with two weeks.
-- Timothy Funches, 26, of Bellwood, sheriff's officer;
-- Antwon Funches, 34, of Chicago, sheriff’s officer:
they got Funches in bunches
arent the funches a family of known gang bangers here in Chicago???
How can a drug delaer get caught if the police are guarding and watching out for the drug dealer?
Now with these sick creeps in jail - the drug dealers can get caught - go catch them.
arent the funches a family of known gang bangers here in Chicago???
12/04/2008 11:47:00 AM
Yup! My thoughts exactly. Three or four generations of them...
the funches ran the tip on roosevelt and francisco
harvey, markam, posen, robbins, need to clean up their act and their people quick.
Anonymous said...
Is this entrapment? Was the only reason for this to simply to coerce peace officers to BREAK THE LAW? Dumb ass cops regardless. WOW!
12/03/2008 04:01:00 AM
It was to clean up our ranks of coppers with a predisposition to commit crimes.
Anonymous said...
I remember IAD planting $800.00 in my car. I had to laugh because they were fresh bills consecutively numbered. I should have inventoried $801.00 and fucked with their silly little minds. They could have put 80 grand in the car and I still would have turned it in. Think of the hell you would be put through if they nail you on theft or bribery charges. Some people just can't and won't think. Just isn't worth it!
12/03/2008 04:54:00 AM
One great story deserves another:
Years ago, while working plain clothes tac, we came across a reputed drug dealer who was carrying a very tempting 250K. back then it was akin to coming across one million. We considered walking him into the alley and dispatching same with a bullit to the back of the head. Good thing we didn't. The feds were following this guy!
Anonymous said...
the names of the scumbags
-- Tavis Ramsey, 31, of Chicago;
-- Dwayne Williams, 42, of Country Club Hills;
-- Antoine D. Dudley, 28, of Harvey, Harvey police officer;
-- James Engram, Jr., 41, of Calumet City, Harvey police officer;
-- Kyle T. Wilson, 31, of Chicago, Chicago police officer;
-- Timothy Funches, 26, of Bellwood, sheriff's officer;
-- Diallo Mingo, 34, of Calumet City, sheriff's officer;
-- Antwon Funches, 34, of Chicago, sheriff’s officer:
-- Antonio B. McCaskill, 30, of Harvey:
-- Richard O. Hall Jr., 35, of Chicago, sheriff's officer;
-- Robert L. Kelly, 32, of Glenwood, sheriff’s officer:
-- Daniel L. Lee, 31, of Chicago, sheriff's officer: and
-- Julius L. Scott Jr. , 34, of Richton Park, sheriff’s officer.
from myfoxchicago.com
12/03/2008 05:12:00 PM
As with county; you need to get sponsored to get this job. Who vouched for this pack of roach vomit? Da, I'm we todd it!
At this point, thats all the FBI is good for.
12/03/2008 10:23:00 AM
There was a FBI bitch working at midway. useless! then our c/o got rid of her. thanks ellyn
Very similar to the pedophiles who enter professions of authority to have access to kids (i.e. clergy, teaching).
12/03/2008 01:35:00 PM
Don't forget scouting and volley ball coaches.
More Bunches of Funches off Lavergne and Quincy sellin non prescription pharmacueticals
The comment was not implying that Cook was a crook, he meant that the crook harvey Officer who found Cook might be an accessory to his murder.
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