Arson?
Word came in from some former co-workers that there was a person of interest named in the investigation of the death of the CFD Firefighter Michael Altman. He has since been picked up on an unrelated warrant:
Chicago police on Wednesday arrested a man sought in connection to a Rogers Park blaze that resulted in the death of a firefighter earlier this week.
An internal bulletin issued Tuesday said detectives were “seeking to locate and interview” the man in relation to firefighter Michael Altman’s death earlier that day. The man was arrested on a warrant Wednesday at Thorek Memorial Hospital, according to police records obtained by the Sun-Times.
The Sun-Times isn’t identifying the man because he hasn’t been arrested or charged in relation to the fire.
He has been arrested at least three times since July 2025, according to Cook County court records. In October, he was placed under court supervision for a year after pleading guilty to retail theft.
Three arrests since July 2025 and "court supervision."
One of our commentators knows EXACTLY what that means:
- Can one of our brothers in the Detectives Division CONFIRM that the arsonist who set the fire was on Cook County Judges Electronic Monitoring !!??!!?? This is the direction we are going. By transferring Electronic Monitoring from the Sheriff to the Judge these vile criminals will run the streets with no metrics in place, public safety emergency as far as I’m concerned.
Yep, another person wandering around on Electronic Monitoring with zero consequences aside from a notification mailed to his last known address that he missed court.
Did he light this fire?
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
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The suntimes published a story on the passing of firefighter Altman.
In it they talk about the hero he was. The. They talk about the legacy of the CFD Altman family. Then the jagoff reporter starts talking about how Mike’s grandfather was fire commissioner during the engine 100 scandal.
What does that have to do with this young firefighters horrendous death.
A young wife with out her husband. Two children who will never know their father.
The suntimes owes the Altman family an apology
Rest in peace brother
All the Tribune needed to do was report on the death of a young firefighter with a family.
But………I guess that wasn’t enough……………..
Tribune:
Though the Altmans have been a staple of CFD for decades, the family was at the center of a racially charged controversy that ultimately forced Altman’s grandfather, who died in 2020, to step down as head of the department. In October 1999, Altman’s grandfather, Edward Altman Jr., resigned as CFD commissioner under pressure from then-Mayor Richard M. Daley. His ouster came just weeks after one of his sons, Edward Altman III, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the city, claiming he was wrongfully fired as head of CFD’s internal affairs unit. The younger Altman was ousted in February 1998 for failing to tell his superiors about the existence of a controversial videotape that showed firefighters drinking beer and using racial slurs at a firehouse retirement party, the Tribune previously reported. But in the lawsuit and later in an interview with the Tribune, the son contended he told his father about the tape soon after learning about it. He charged that the then-commissioner lied to protect his own job after the tape was leaked to the media. At the time, the commissioner acknowledged to reporters that the episode had produced a “family tragedy.” “But there isn’t anything I can do about it,” he said. The video “totally reversed people’s feelings about the department, and that is upsetting to me,” Edward Altman Jr. said at the time. “When the chips are down (firefighters) come through and really put out an effort and they get the job done.”
Anyone else see a pattern here, anyone time there’s a firefighter death there seems to be an arsonist immediately arrested. Last year in 015 the garage fire, some local crackhead arrested for arson. This year Roger’s park. Don’t tell us the offender is also some useless crackhead. Do these crackheads walk into the area and just confess? Genuine question. How?????
Recidivism is the repeating of or returning to criminal behavior by the same offender. Too many of these identified democrat-party protected class of free range cageless recidivists in our communities.
Lefty Sun-Times isn't saying who it is because it hasn't been charged with arson; but it was sent to jail for warrants, and that is reason enough to say the name. As for "court supervision" that term means "NO supervision, & allowed to prey on the innocent." The judge should be held accountable for the death of the fireman for gross negligence and failure to perform his duty!
It’s time to go back to posting a bond to get released from custody. This Safe T Act is an absolute disaster.
Tom Dart must have been over his head with the Electronic Monitoring program disaster. Tom Dart failed to effectively administer his program which he was responsible for despite having an army of "commanders" and "chiefs" in his ranks. The local police do their part do their part arresting criminals, but it seems the county's judges, sheriffs and bloated court bureaucracy can't seem to get their democrat controlled act together. And the colossal failure to monitor E.M. appears to have cost another life as we have seen time and time again. And who exactly is responsible for not taking action attempting to apprehend a person with an active warrant? Just exactly what actions has the sheriff's office attempted to locate this person, if any? Cook County residents deserve better and demand accountability!
CPD is seeking a person of interest in relation to a fire Sunday in Rogers Park.
https://x.com/ChicagoContrar1/status/2034353738098335929
If this is true punishment should involve a blow torch, baseball bat & a very VERY angry man! I feel we are losing society with each criminal who walks out of court M.F. ing the system & bragging about it. Good people need to take back the streets. I grew up in NYC (what a shithole that has become) but I remember NYPD driving by or usually walking by on patrol & giving an order & explaining the punishment if you didn't comply. A seasoned officer wielding a nightstick was a frightful thing. We need to get back to those days! You're a smartass? You get a smack. These shitheads of all colors need to know who is who. Back the blue & God bless all who run towards the danger
Detectives question man with active arrest warrant in death of Chicago firefighter Michael Altman
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/03/detectives-question-man-with-active-arrest-warrant-in-death-of-chicago-firefighter-michael-altman.html
Detectives do interviews, review cameras, review data bases, then they go out and find anybody that may be involved. If the evidence and / or interviews of any of these people gives rise to probable cause to arrest, they arrest them. That's how this happens, you fucking moron.
Oh, and BTW, the investigation into the death of a Fireman or Police Officer does take precedence over some dead gangbanger or crackhead.
I've arrested 2 people with ankle monitors so far already month, on felony retail theft and agg dui. Both times Cook Co sheriff's or idoc did not have them in their system. And theyre from Cook Co not burbs. Somebody had to put the damn things on? There was no phone number on them like the old ones used to have. Nothing in their leads either. We just notated it. And that was it. Stupid system, whatever they are doing.
CITY still doesn't have flags at half mast.
Meanwhile the news feed today features judges crying over the "umprecedented" numbers of threats against them lately.
This is has been a serious problem for a few years now. CWB did a couple nice articles on it. If you combine the transfer to the Chief Judge with no unit actively looking and the safety act, EM is a progressive joke. They get 48 hours before a violation , they get 2 free days a week with no violation, every day counts as a day in custody.
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/01/judges-will-now-review-major-electronic-monitoring-violations-within-24-hours-chief-judge-says.html
Votes have consequences
Everyone voted for all the officials who pushed the Safety Act.
The blood of that fireman is on the hands of every IL voter who identifies as a democrat
You guys wanted lawlessness y’all got it.
Criminals now run the streets unmonitored all in the name of restorative justice.
The subject who started this fire should of been in jail
Just another catch and release courtesy of the arrogant Pumpkin Head Pigster and his ruinous Safe-T-Act.
Again, he should have been locked up.
First and foremost: Prayers for the fallen firefighter and his family. He was taken from us too soon.
There’s a very cynical part of me that wonders if we (by that I mean those of us in favor of public order and against Marxism) can use this more effectively than the heroic police officers who have died at the hands of those that should have been locked up.
These f’ing reporters are true scumbags. They’re going to dig as deep as they can to find some dirt. It doesn’t matter if you died in the line of duty. If you got a speeding ticket in the 70’s, or a bad attendance record in the sixth grade, they will find it and publish it. Anything to tarnish a PO or. FF.
And they still won't say who after he is charged because, well you know why.
Unrelated, how is former radio personality, Roe Conn, qualified to be the head of the Cook County Sheriff’s Carjacking Task Force?
Geez. Don’t rob a bank with Eddie III….
amen to that
Yes what bullshit, his uncle was in charge of the IAD at the time.
Don’t beat around the bush, go ahead and say what you got to say. Dont insinuate anything, say it with your chest, let’s hear it.
Here, I’ll explain it, when we are really motivated to do something (a murder involving a cop, a fireman, a child), once the big train gets rolling down the tracks, there’s a lot of people on this job that are really good at what they do. Not to mention this day and age where cameras are everywhere, and we have people solely dedicated to getting video and tracking people. It happens every day in the city, from patrol to detectives to units, guys do great work, it’s just no one cares. So you hear 2 similar sounding stories and that they were both solved and immediately think it’s the police putting cases on people and just grabbing the first poor schmuck they see. Of course not understanding how this process works, but you’ll be damned if that stops you from insinuating something negative about the police. And you’ll say that’s not what you meant when it’s of course what you meant which is why you tap danced around the edges of it, so when someone brought it up, you could deny it. I’d sure hope you’re not the police but you wouldn’t be the first idiot we hired who hates the police. As someone who has been part of tons of these investigations, get some TOJ kid and learn a thing or two, if you are in fact the police. If you’re not, quit being such a little bitch and say what you mean, you’ll get more respect that way. Puss puss.
Hahaha- Cook County residents deserve better? They just voted to reelect Prickwinkle!!! They’re getting exactly what they deserve.
Called investigating, dickhead.
Can we please have someone proofread these bulletins!?!?
The only way to stop an arsonist is to kill them. Otherwise, they will always re-offend. That is straight from an FBI forensics class.
The Guardian, who believes CPD had a hidden black site where people were "disappeared," is now taking on the murder of Clifton Lewis.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1ry4ec7/comment/obbplgs
Yes it is
If my memory is correct about the one in 015 I believe their was a complaint of arsons or arson in progress and possibly a suspicious person hanging around in the area.
Unfortunately the criminals in black robes has an law that protects them from being held accountable
I'm not a cop, so you probably know more about this than me, but I read the reason Dart wanted off the program was that the judges and so-called prosecutors under Foxx were putting every homicidal mainiac who showed up to court on EM, and it was pretty much impossible to keep track of them all, especially after SAFE-T act made it even easier for murderers, assailants and rapists to laugh their way back onto the streets.
Seen in the wilds of Chitcago! But you aren't allowed to carry on the EL! https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2034664444429574558
Nice outcome!
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/03/19/armed-robber-shot-in-self-defense-by-chicago-gun-owner-n1231926
It's a shame that the family couldn't file a civil suit for wrongful death and name the judge in it as an accessory. One or two of these might cause Cook county courts to be a tad more vigilant and actually impose punishment on criminals.
Another preventable crime , caused because certain politicians want criminals released from prison. That young lady almost burned to death on CTA train. Yet the citizens of Illinois will vote for incumbent politicians.
The reporters dig for dirt but the editor has to approve the article... Who's the editors at the Scum-Times and the Fibune???
Maybe they could look at him for the other back porch fires in Rogers Park in recent months.
I thought that exact thing!!!
Because............where else could the loser ever get a big paycheck with Cadillac benefits ? It's just endless taxpayer monies........no worries.
If they did conehead would have been disappeared long ago
Prayers to his family, hope if this is arson the person is charged with his murder. Rogers Park is bad, last night a Loyola student was shot in the head by a masked male. This city is really going down hill fast.
I read an article about the Lewis Homicide, I hope and pray for peace in his family and accountability.
Im believe that 95 percent, perhaps more, of the reporters are pieces of shit. They are nothing more than the scum that Nikita Khrushchev alluded to when he said we will destroy you from within. First the religion then the courts then the press then the police. Obviously any story involving any kind of heroics of any first responder will be portrayed with some negative aspect. All part of the communist plan. Im surprised that these scum reporters didnt talk about the damage the firefighter caused to the fancy apartment when he fell thru the floor. Reporter equals the scum thats under a pile of dog shit.
In this case there was information in the comments section on the Citizen app – apparently some of the neighbors knew who it was.
Crook County, where crime pays as long as the politicians are paid…
Innocent until Proven guilty he might not have done anything
From what I know enter the academy went through training patrol and viola made commander of carjacking. Under the tutelage of cook county clout and ass kissing from the office of Sheriff Dart.
What is going in 24 that an arson and a Loyola student shot in the head??? Are they short??
You can’t hold judges accountable. That’s part of the problem.
He’s not. But he is a clout guy. And Darts an asshole.
Awe too bad loser judges. Keep releasing the crimimals with easy sentences. Maybe people won't want you destroyed. Well they let all the losers going after supreme court judges, what makes crook county judges any different. I rest my case.
Slum Times muddies the waters as usual. The reporter reflects the sleaziness of the Slimes and their management. No subscriptions and no support to the advertisers.
NEWS FLASH … The Safe T Act does not work … unless you’re a criminal.
Roe conn that what it is by the a conn job is great pals with fluffy dart. He got kicked out of wgn immediately after new owners showed up. What does a radio and tv star do when they are dumped from their jobs? They run to the sheriff and beg for a job with ZERO qualifications. Not sure how he making it on 150 g a year. One unqualified clown showing another how its done
Should talk to brad curry worked for idoc and cook cnty brad curry always road nuts to get ahead became a boss and instead of workin to figure out the streets when a worker did wrong his answer fire them then hooked up with sal godnez aka Monty hall was hooked with the Latin kings former director idoc also wrote a gang book but,never worked the streets along with Eric Harris, dion Dixon ,Alan Hahn all nut riders
Roe Conn used to have Dart on his show all the time back when Roe Conn had a radio show.
half mast if you're on a ship, half staff if you're on land.
Tough to understand what you wrote, but was Sal Godnez that idiot jail guard that wore a white fez?
If it is, I remember him becoming a media darling and he was dropping knowledge on news reporters about gangs etc.
Here's a clown who was never the police or actually worked the street and he became the news go to guy for gang crime information. In a city with the second largest police department (at the time) in the U.S., with guys who worked Gangs and OCD for decades, the media turned to some junior policeman for answers and advice.
You just can't hate the media enough! Anyone else remember that dork? (it might not even be that Sal guy, but he looked like a PR and talked like Mickey the Mope)
Who the fu@k still reads the slum-times? Or for that matter, any shitcago paper?
I couldn't imagine trying to decipher a report written by some of these posters. I mean, I ain't no English major, but damn...
The County and Chicago have truly “promoted” themselves into destruction. Way too many unqualified boys and girls getting promotions to spots that require decision making that have zero zero idea what they are doing and it’s truly frightening.
I love reading the biography’s of command staff. One reads “30 years of service, served as a patrolman, detective, Sgt, ect ect before being Deputy Chief” Then the next bio says “Chief Smith was hired THREE years ago, former dildo tester and graduate of a liberal arts school”
Sheriffs Dept just hired a new boss, “Erica” Harris. Used to be Eric until a recent gender reassignment surgery. Dart must of thought it was stylish to hire a Tranny. Walks around correcting people on pronouns.
firebugs are irredeemable.. end it before it burns again
He’s been arrested and charged. Murder- forcible felony. Murder- first degree residential arson. Agg arson injury to fire/police.
When you sit in the jury room and listen to the ASA read the reports aloud-it’s a wonder anyone gets convicted!
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