No Bail?
- More than 14 years after he skipped out on his federal drug conspiracy trial, ex-Chicago police Sgt. Eddie Hicks was back Thursday in a courtroom at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse following his arrest last month in Detroit.
Hicks, 68, was led into U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Martin’s courtroom in an orange jail jumpsuit with a thin, graying goatee and shackles clanking around his ankles. He spoke only to say, “Yes, your honor,” when the judge asked him if he understood the proceedings.
A 29-year veteran of the police force, Hicks was charged in Chicago in 2001 with running a crew of rogue officers who robbed drug dealers, pocketed the illicit cash and sold the stolen drugs to other pushers.
Of course, that might not apply in Federal Court after 14 years on the lam.
Labels: corruption, scandals
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
19 Comments:
I guess his pension payments will resume. They won’t stop unless he’s convicted.
Whitey Bulger was on the lamb for 16 years.
Hicks, you fucking amateur, only 14 years for
a cop with 29 years under the belt. Pension
not good enough? Hope you like your new
SuperMax 23 hour suite.
God damn the pusher man
Eddie Hicks (Hillard) has not been receiving a pension for the last 12 years because the Pension Board demanded that he appear in their office and sign the affidavit that he was living. Now that he has reappeared the funds will be released and with the $700,000. plus he will be able to afford a good lawyer to handle his plea bargain.
As for cooperating and giving others up the statute of limitations has expired on his robbery crew but has not if anyone has been helping him while he was on the lam.
He will be joining Hargroves (Hillard), Bill Patterson (Nimocks), Medzianowski (Risley), and PacMan (O'Shields) in doing life in a Federal joint.
I wonder if the bosses responsible for these thugs are still communicating with them?
Is this the Eddie Hicks that once worked in Area 1,SOG in the mid to late 70s as a patrolman?
Good riddance to bad rubbish and what a dumb Motherfucker to boot!
I hope he doesn't "take the fifth" or editorial boards throughout the city are going to explode!
Dart offered his electronic monitoring services to the feds if they needed it.
Seriously...Detroit!
WTF, bro?
Does anyone know how they caught him in the Detroit area?
Anyone who knew him had a hard time believing he would do something like that.
I've no pity for thieves and drug (poison) dealers. I support law enforcement but criminality even behind a badge, is still criminal!
Most Law Enforcement Officers never get the respect they so deserve, but just one going bad looks bad for all. And a liberal main stream media will be sure to point it out to everyone.
(They've got to point at someone else while the skeletons pile up in their closet.)
J.J.
maybe they'll go for Lilly next
He is talking his ass off he doesn't want to loose the house the kid got but the government should take he jumped bond
Probably a small potato in the grand scheme of high ranking operators he answered to.
Maybe he can open the doors and shed some light on the rest of the playas and avoid the felony conviction pension clause.
Wonder how he would have faired under the obama restorative justice drug dilla disparity initiative and would have been out by now.
Coulda shoulda.
Theres more to this. How can a thief the city knew to fire was able to collect all that pension more eye and transfer properties and no batted an eye
If the Clintons not in jail should anyone be?
Two years after Hicks vanished, his signature appeared on land records giving his son — also a Chicago police officer — the South Side property Hicks had used to secure his $150,000 bond. In addition, by the time of the Tribune investigation in 2011, monthly police pension checks totaling more than $300,000 had been paid to Hicks' bank account or cashed by his wife.
The Tribune also reported that the day after he fled, Hicks apparently signed paperwork directing the police pension fund to mail his annuity checks of more than $3,000 per month to a South Side home where he had lived with his wife, Carol Pierce.
Pierce immediately began cashing the checks, which bore Hicks' apparent signature and endorsement on the back.
Two years later, Hicks' signature appeared on a form directing the fund to wire his monthly benefit payments into his account with the Chicago Patrolman's Federal Credit Union, the Tribune found
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-fugitive-ex-chicago-cop-arrested-met-20170919-story.html
Hicks is no more of a criminal then Rahm , he just got caught....
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