Gun Running? Seriously?
Who thinks they can get away with this shit nowadays?
Federal prosecutors are accusing a Chicago cop of using his status as a law enforcement officer to buy guns for an accomplice who funneled them to Mexico.
In a newly unsealed indictment, a grand jury charges Officer Kevin Rodriguez and his co-defendant, Diego Valdez, with running an illegal gun pipeline between September and December 2024.
Prosecutors say Rodriguez abused his position as a cop to acquire AR-style rifles and pistols not available to private citizens under Illinois law.
The indictment alleges Rodriguez used his CPD credentials to buy restricted weapons in Illinois and Indiana, then falsely claimed on federal paperwork that he was the “actual buyer.” Investigators say Valdez was the real customer.
He allegedly transferred thousands of dollars to Rodriguez via Zelle for the purchases, then smuggled the guns to Mexico.
Well, that'll be multiple federal charges all backed up by electronic money transfer records, probably twenty years minimum, maybe thirty.
According to his base salary, he's at Step 6, meaning over fifty-four months but under ten years. Old enough to know better.
Hope it was worth it, asshat.
Labels: scandals
posted by SCC at 12:09 AM
113 Comments:
Dear idiot
I had the opportunities to do the same things you did. I thought well...
Took a pass....
Toniight I enjoy a comfortable bed and a nice pension...sleep well
Idiot...
Lowered hiring standards, or just a bad hire? It happens sometimes.
Good more OT for us.
Too bad. This guy has potential to be a Hack Merit Sgt. He's ambitious, untrustworthy, aggressive, money-hungry and stuck on stupid.
Lol. He might a an immigrant with the name
Old enough to know a better way not to get caught?
Besides not doing it?
With the Woke, DEI, Quota, Progressive, recruitment this is the type of recruitment the Department is wanting to join its ranks, in spite of what the City and Department says. You just can’t shine shit.
Another idiot gone!
Badges? BADGES? Etc
Enjoy Fed Prison, ya asshole!
You deserve every terrifying moment in the joint!
Nothing more than a piece of shit that was able to make it on the job.
The constitution and America, though he or his parents swore and oath, mean nothing compared to Mexico. What I don't get is why these types are here if their home country is so dear to them.
Keep lowering the hiring standards and sit back as the CPD implodes!
How stupid can a person be?
I can’t wait to read the comments about this guys work ethic & history. Heard he lives in the Beverly/ Mt Greenwood area
If true F him! Scumbag!
5 yr on.
This is surprising to no one who's seen the hiring standards of the past 10 years. The city wants the CPD to reflect the "community". {snicker} If you're black or brown and actually have a work-ethic and vote Republican no need to apply. This will be one of many scandals for the foreseeable future. Hell...within the next couple of years we will see officers selling dope and pu*** out of the tac office or district parking lot. What a ghetto department.
Diversity is our strength. Not. I only trust someone that is all about America. Split allegiences cause decisions that are Anti American. The issue isn’t Hispanic, the issue is allegiance to Mexicans.
Dei
Back in the eighties feds wanted to indict additional judges during Operation Greylord.
Had a few in their crosshairs, but unlike the indicted judges the non indicted seemed to spend only money that could be accounted for.
Two possibilities. They were innocent or they didn't spend any bribe money and hid it in a box somewhere.
No Venmo then.
Say goodbye to freedom for a few decades.
Enjoy prison, jerk-off
Another gang banger acting like a gang banger. Rot in jail you POS
Crook County Judges are the best judges that money can buy.
Is he one of the gang banging clowns they hired with tats all over their necks and head looking like a x prison convict straight out of the movie American Me.
This department is becoming a bunch of hood rats with stars. Bunch of cps specials and former teenage moms in every roll call.
Operation Fast and Furious version 2.0. It wasn't that long ago when the ATF and DOJ under the leadership of the Hussain Obama administration allowed 1,961 guns to cross the border into Mexico after illegal straw purchases were made by cooperating government confidential human sources. Never forget Border patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed by one of those rifles bought in the U.S. illegally destined for the fentanyl and human trafficking narco cartels in Mexico. To date, no politician has been dethroned or jailed.
R.I.P. Brother Border Agent Brian Terry. You have not been forgotten. Actual justice not social justice for government operatives that allowed such nonsense with deathly consequences in the U.S. and inside Mexico never came to fruition. You won't see this failed operation in the Hussein Obama Library or in his hall of shames wing next to the bookstacks. Obama gets no credit whatsoever for his authorized illegal arms trades with assault weapons forwarded to those international drug cartels peddling poison in areas like South Shore reaping destruction on so many levels.
ot: know thine enemy:
https://x.com/Thinc_Exworkers
Nah...his guy already told him he's on the next list!!
Don’t think this little snag will keep him from being merit if he’s got the right juice!
Maybe the will find real love in federal prison.
From one who knows.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Exhibit A here as to why so many hardworking, tax-paying, legal citizens in 010 don't bother to call CPD for help. That district is completely compromised. This city needs the great-grandson of Elliot Ness to step in.
Retired here, and not surprised. A little disappointed, but definitely not surprised.
It seems every ten years or so, there is some copper who thinks he is smarter than the system they swore to protect. It takes a strong moral charachter to come to work every day and work within our laws, rules and regs. I dont know how to screen them out, other than give them enough rope and let them hang themselves. They always do.
Ive worked tours of duty with some of those bad officers in the same car never knowing the darkness in their hearts. (I could list some names here, but I wont.) I was in the academy with some of them as well. I say, good rifddance, and l hope they nail them to the wall. Whether they sold guns, sold drugs, took bribes, or stole money and drugs they are always smug assholes that think they can beat the system.
To those who do maintain a good moral code of ethics, I say keep fighting the good fight. There is a lot more of us than them. May G-d bless you all for doing the Lords work. Stay safe...
There has ALWAYS been scandals and abuse of power in the department. Stop acting like this is new. Bribery, corruption, use of force, plain ol racism has and will always be apart of thinpolice departments legacy and it happened long before your typical DEI hire rhetoric
Very low IQ move.
Low integrity individual motivated by greed.
Lost freedom for a few pesos! How dumb can one be? Now, if the Feds could maybe RICO the gangs here, their money, their illegal gun trade………maybe….
It's the same with that Ilhan moron idiot. She openly says her allegiance is with Somalia and other traitorous crap but she's still in office.
It's widely known she immigrated here and married her brother to gain citizenship.
This should be interesting where as straw purchase convictions are supposed to get minimum 10 years no one and I mean no one has received more than 2 years. Look at all the heater cases and cases where officers where murdered and none of them received more than 2 years.
i love this comment. Just like those that ride around w/ the gigantic flags on their vehicles during one of their 20 independence celebrations. If you love your country so much, go back
That's how George Ryan got caught, he banked every single paycheck and didn't spend a penny, but he used the cash bribes to pay his bills.
Give him 20 years
In any group, there will be a few bad apples, politicians, school teachers, banking, media, retail, military, etc. That is just the way it is.
This is what makes people go out and arm themselves. Knowing that there is a cop stupid enough to have an electronic transfer of money for a crime....and thus committing another crime...underscores the need for civilians to protect themselves. Hell why didn't he just have the guy write him a check like Juicy Smellit did for the brothers? Crime is a cash business...
Next time you go to court remember this part of Cook County history.
https://www.smorrill.com/the-dishonor-roll-judges/
Keep hiring people to reflect the community, this is what your gonna get.
What unit is he in?
Meanwhile people with time have gotten indicted for false arrests, stealing city time, and the list goes on. Clearly there has always been bad Apples
Why do it in Illinois when there are lots of states with much looser gun-ownership laws? And why would the cartels buy them when they have all the money in the world and can access the international arms market?
Regarding Operation Greylord what I heard afterward was the Feebs shut down the operation instead of continuing it to its conclusion. Had they let it run its course they would have closed the court doors entirely. They did enough to scare the rest into the straight and narrow......somewhat.
#Be-the-Change !
Those ain't my pants!
Darien Marion-Burton is no longer the executive director of the Oak Park River Forest Chamber of Commerce after leaving his job Sept. 19. Marion-Burton told Pioneer Press that he resigned, and his photo and bio no longer appear on the organization’s website.
According to the Illinois Department of Human Rights, Marion-Burton’s resignation came after two women, a current employee and a former employee, filed separate complaints against the Oak Park River Forest Chamber of Commerce with the agency on Aug. 28 and Sept. 4. IDHR referred to the complaints as “unperfected charges of discrimination” and declined to release the complaints because they are still under investigation.
Since day one, literally the first day that he worked there, there’s been a lot of inappropriate talk,” she said. “(Marion-Burton) spoke about how he was rejected by some guy that he was interested in and he was out drinking all night and he came to work hungover and wearing the exact clothes that he claimed he was wearing before.”
She said Marion-Burton often talked at work about his sex life, discussing specific sexual acts and describing his sexual encounters..
another dei hire
he should work for the cpd he would fit right in
He worked in 004
Cartel wannabe's?
The ICE flotilla has arrived.
Who does he think he is, a democrat US Attorney General?
Pay police more, then raise the standards. Education requirements, mandatory fitness test every year. Remove merit, promotions based on test. Don't let NOBLE have a copy of the test.
“Who thinks they can get away with this shit nowadays?”
Prisons are full of guys who thought that they were smarter than the guy in the next cell, and sadly, coppers are no exception.
How long do you think it will be before the next police-robbing-dope-dealers or police-taking-kickbacks-from-tow-trucks scandal hits?
And his pension is forfeited back to us when convicted i believe
You can keep it
Be the change !!!! Let’s lower the standards in hiring and see how fucked up we can make this job. This is exactly what the progressives wanted and this is exactly what myself and others have been saying since this defund the police movement started. The future scandals that will occur thanks to DEI bull shit will make Jerry Finnegan and his Unit 153 crew look like childs play.
Hey , every year some rookie thinks he’s smarter than everyone and becomes corrupt. These type should have been weeded out . Not one copper I ever worked with wanted to be involved in corruption. We came on to lock the bad guys up, not supply them with guns . Toss the book at him
There has to be a confidential informant involved somewhere who knew what was going on. Dumba$$ or the other dumba$$ probably said something to someone who was a snitch and got the ball rolling for the feds. Either way “adios”, “hasta la vista baby” and “cuidate el culo”
Look into this:
005th district officer caught switching labels at Walmart while off duty... security calls on him, confronts him. Fight breaks out and he's got a gun on him, call comes out as person with a gun. he's chased by 005 officers who get him in custody. Security says he does it often and want to sign complaints. Once they find out he's police they change their minds.
Nice try moron. Good people in 010 do call the police. It's the bangers that don't. They just call their lawyer or COPA.
Human motivation explained perfectly. When is the book release?
So that makes this ok in your book ?!
WTF, all you idiots pointing out that others hav sinned in the past shouldn’t STFU !!
Anybody hear about the ODPO in 005 that was caught switching tags at the walmart right across from the 005 station ?
No shortage of clowns in the cpd circus !
DICK. fuck 'em
coppers always do that stuff cheaper
Remember USBP Agent Nicholas Ivie, too.
Who wants to live in a ghetto? Mount Greenwood and parts of Beverly are nice
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OT:
CPS enrollment drops again. But the budget keeps rising.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/09/25/chicago-public-schools-enrollment-drops-restarts-decrease-migrant-students-latino-immigration
The gigantic flags help ICE to zero in.
Hey SCC, how many sgt’s and detectives and fto’s?
Yeah the scandal of the Burge era unlike today the mutts were kept in line.
When you retire it'll make sense
A comfortable bed, a nice pension, and a keyboard. Yeah that's the life.
Your stupid
You’re even more stupid
50 sgts
90 detectives and no idea about FTOs
What’s different is that I don’t remember our coworkers taking a knee at work or our bosses marching and blocking traffic with BLM. I also don’t remember officers not being able to speak or write English. Do you remember a time when the CPD was desperate for qualified applicants who could pass a power test or drug screen? It’s your DEI hiring and promotions that’s typical…not the rhetoric. The scandals will only increase.
Fast and furious was actually the same as George Bush operation “Wide Reciever”. Obama never had an original thought. He took operation wide reciever and made it fast and furious. Only difference was he removed the tracking devices from guns sold to cartels as it was stopped after cartels learned of them and removed them from guns.
You can get all that info on Data Warehouse. Stop being a slouch!!
I guess people living on the edge see all of the shenanigans the democrats get away with without repercussions and figure why not go for it.
I was at LA Fitness over the summer there was a recruitment booth there and the 3 diverse women doing the recruitment kept saying things like…..
“Come get this money ya’ll! Come get paid, ya’ll!”
Then I overheard one of them telling a diverse but portly female trying to sell the job by talking about vacation time and how many days off they can take.
Fuck him, he can rot. But thousands of dollars?
That’s like 3 or 4 rifles in Illinois
Yep, there’s been terminations of recruits this past year for their stupidity.
Actually, there are a lot with dreads, mohalks, weaves, and full beards that reveal their criminal family members when you ask. It’s scary!
Make an appointment ample of him. Trust met he earned. Two days in a row with crooked cop stories.
004 back in the spot light? Wonder what’s in their water.
004 tact
Yeah the scandal of the Burge era unlike today the mutts were kept in line.
9/25/2025 09:21:51 PM
yea,,,, do your homework,,,,Burge was never convicted of torture, not 1 person,
they made up a law to convict him for lying about a crime that was never proven to have happened..... how does that work?
Over the years you notice that there are people who come on the job and from day one they are scamming the Medical or filing frivolous lawsuits to get paid.
Not anymore!
This idiot was talking to his tact buddies about this on his cell phone. Then this fuck up said he wondered if he could flip on someone to get out of this mess, honest to god! Then sounded like a sad sack of shit by wondering what he’ll do for work now. If he lives in Beverly/Mt Greenwood I think the Waldo Cooney’s on 111th St is still looking for a supervisor for their delivery drivers…
What law?
As someone handcuffed to the radiator and saw the inside of the typewriter cover.Those boys were mean.And had the best pot.
You had the opportunity to, you did it just don’t get caught. Estuped
Swamp water.
The cartels in Mehico say, "Muchas Gracias, Amigo!"
In reality that’s what it becomes. I recall the early days when I felt like I was missing out on excitement when I went on furlo. By the end, all you can think of is ways to extend it. The difference now being that’s where these new recruits start.
The Afghan Taliban have a much wider selection of abandoned US weapons ( August 2021) as well as competitive prices; shipping is expensive, however.
Crooks can get better deals in Kabul.
Fine how about Hanrahan. You gonna blame that one a made up law too?
Lock this piece of trash up and throw away the key. Then post a flyer in every district and make an example of him.
When we have a perfect society, we will then have a perfect pool of citizens to choose the police from. Until then we have to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law and make examples out of them. Bye-Bye loser...
halfway to retirement
Fine how about Hanrahan. You gonna blame that one a made up law too?
9/26/2025 01:13:14 PM
was Hanrahan convicted of an actual crime or for lying about a crime that was never proven to have happened ????
like you being convicted for lying about robbing a bank, but they never proved the bank was robbed
And his pension is forfeited back to us when convicted i believe
9/25/2025 03:16:26 PM
nope,,, he just gets the money he put into it back to him
I can finally speak about this fucking piece of shit. This fucking kid was paraded around by the 004th District Mt. Greenwood bosses, sent to TAC after 2 years on the job. He continually did illegal and blatantly unsafe shit. Yet they took care of him. I wonder how those bosses will cover their own now.
No one cares aboit “whataboutism” regarding incidents from 40 or 50 years ago.
We’re talking about issues currently facing our department today.
Primarily DEI hires and the relaxed hiring standards for credit scores, ddrug use, and criminal history leading to problems. It’s not rocket science.
when did bosses ever go after bosses? they got the blue shirt, and they are happy
Why didn’t you say something before? You couldn’t prevented this and possibly saved the department from looking bad.
sounds personal
If you’re looking to double your salary then go to 004.
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