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FOX LAKE OFFICER SHOOTING
Gliniewicz plotted ‘hit’ Authorities say cop targeted village official
Officer’s personnel file reveals multiple acts of misconduct
By KATIE DAHLSTROM
editorial@nwherald.com
By CAITLIN SWIECA and KATIE DAHLSTROM
kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com FOX LAKE – Months before his staged suicide, Fox Lake Police Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz requested a meeting with a motorcycle gang member to “put a hit” on the village administrator he feared would discover his years of embezzling, an investigator said Thursday. Lake County Sheriff’s Detective Chris Covelli said Gliniewicz in April asked someone to set up a meeting with the high-ranking gang member with the intended target being Village Administrator Anne Marrin. The messages, which were later deleted, came shortly after officials said Marrin had started auditing the city’s assets and finances, including those of Fox Lake Police Explorer Post 300 program. The unnamed person told police in an interview that Gliniewicz made the request for a hit on Marrin in conversation, not through text or other messages, Covelli said. The gang member, who Covelli also would not name, denied talking to Gliniewicz. Covelli said Marrin was unaware of Gliniewicz’s plot as it unfolded. “She didn’t know any of this until he was dead,” Covelli said. Gliniewicz, 52, was shot and killed Sept. 1 after he radioed he was investigating three suspicious men. His death sparked a massive manhunt and left the community in mourning over the revered officer affectionately known as “G.I. Joe.” Gliniewicz decided to carefully stage his suicide to look like a homicide after months of pressure that his “extensive crimes” would be discovered, investigators said. Covelli said investigators also found a small amount of cocaine in Gliniewicz’s desk drawer when they searched it the week of his death. The
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Fox Lake Village Administrator Anne Marrin speaks Wednesday during the news conference regarding the investigation into the death of Fox Lake Police Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz. Officials said Gliniewicz requested a meeting in April with a motorcycle gang member to “put a hit” on Marrin.
MO RE COVE RAGE O N NWH E RALD.CO M DOCUMENTS released to the media Wednesday regarding the investigation into the death of Police Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz
PHOTOS AND VIDEO from Wednesday’s news conference with Fox Lake police, village and Lake County officials
TIMELINE of the Fox Lake police shooting, manhunt and investigation
REACTIONS from the Fox Lake area community about Gliniewicz’s life and death
FOX LAKE – A February 2009 letter authored by anonymous members of the Fox Lake Police Department revealed Fox Lake Police Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz’s colleagues had a number of concerns about the officer’s behavior. The letter was one of several documents detailing internal incidents throughout Gliniewicz’s 29-year career with the department that further Know more contradict the heroic image Gliniewicz Read excerpts maintained in the from Fox Lake community before Police Lt. Joseph his Sept. 1 suicide. Gliniewicz’s The personnel personnel file at file, obtained by the NWHerald.com. Northwest Herald on Thursday, also revealed several alcohol-related incidents and a 2003 incident between Gliniewicz and a dispatcher in which the dispatcher claimed Gliniewicz made threatening actions and statements. Gliniewicz, 52, was shot and killed Sept. 1 after he radioed he was investigating three suspicious men, sparking a massive manhunt and leaving a community in mourning over the officer affectionately known as “G.I. Joe.” On Wednesday, investigators revealed Gliniewicz had carefully staged his suicide to look like a homicide after months of pressure that his “extensive crimes” would be discovered. The 2009 letter from Gliniewicz’s fellow Fox Lake officers, which was addressed to then-Fox Lake Mayor Cindy Irwin, detailed a number of accusations against Gliniewicz, some of which they allege could be violations of state law. The two-page letter listed 20 accusations against Gliniewicz, including statements that: • Gliniewicz had received six separate five-day suspensions for an inappropriate sexual relationship with a
See PERSONNEL FILE, page A5
Civil lawsuit alleging sexual harassment filed against lieutenant in 2003 In the wake of Wednesday’s explosive news conference, it was discovered Fox Lake Police Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz also was the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit more than a decade earlier. In the civil lawsuit filed in federal court in 2003, a former Fox Lake police officer claimed Gliniewicz used
his position of authority to get sexual favors from her. Gliniewicz, a sergeant at the time and the woman’s supervisor, said he would protect her from another ranking officer who disliked women, the lawsuit stated. Gliniewicz allegedly told her the sex acts were required to keep her job. A federal judge eventually tossed the lawsuit because the woman and her attorney
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repeatedly missed filing deadlines and failed to appear for scheduled court dates. Gliniewicz was suspended for 30 days, and was ordered not to have contact with the woman and to attend counseling for sex addiction, court documents reveal. The woman also worked for the Fox Lake Police Explorer Post 300, a youth program authorities said Gliniewicz siphoned thousands of dollars
from for years as its supervisor before staging his suicide as a crime scene Sept. 1. In the detailed federal filing, the woman said she performed oral sex on her supervisor five times, although she “made it clear to Gliniewicz that she did not wish to do this but this did not dissuade Gliniewicz.” On Valentine’s Day in 2000, Gliniewicz called the woman to meet at a hotel, where he
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gave her a uniform he bought for the woman’s son. He gave her a box of chocolate and “pressured” the woman to perform oral sex on him. At a scheduled camp for the explorers, Gliniewicz told her “how much fun [they] would have after the kids went to bed.” The woman left the explorers in July 2000, and she resigned from the police department in August 2001. She
sued the Fox Lake Police Department because she said she was unfairly disciplined after alleging sexual harassment. The woman’s exact role in the department or with the explorers is unclear, and a Fox Lake police spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for clarification. The woman said she came forward after taking a course
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