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Officer shooting case put ‘at risk’ Officials: Coroner released sensitive information before speaking to investigators By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com
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FOX LAKE – Authorities leading the investigation into the shooting death of Fox Lake Police Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz are condemning the Lake County coroner after he released to the media what they say is sensitive information.
In a Thursday afternoon release from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Lake County Major Crime Task Force Cmdr. George Filenko said there has not yet been communication between investigators and Coroner Thomas Rudd. “Dr. Rudd, releasing information which is sensitive to this investigation, puts the entire case
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at risk,” Filenko said. “All of the progress made since this tragic incident is potentially in jeopardy. “This is an active investigation, and it’s inappropriate for anyone other than the investigating body to release information to the media prior to providing a final written report of the findings, or even having a conversation with the task
force.” Also in the release, Lake County Undersheriff Raymond Rose went so far as to call Rudd’s actions “completely outside of policy, procedure, protocols, and are completely unprofessional,” and strongly criticized what he called speculation from Rudd about what happened at the crime scene.
The release, from Lake County Sheriff’s Detective Chris Covelli, also states the information Rudd had released to the media has not been released to or confirmed by law enforcement officials involved in the case. Rudd offered some information
See GLINIEWICZ, page A9
COMMUNITY PROJECT AIMS TO HELP THE HOMELESS
By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com Making good on a 2008 promise to limit his terms, Republican state Sen. Dan Duffy announced Thursday he will not seek re-election. Duffy, who in his two terms in office challenged both the Democratic majority and the Republican establishment, first told constituents via social media that he would not seek a third Dan Duffy term in office representing the 26th Illinois Senate District. “I have always believed that public service should be a duty, not a career. As a consistent term limits advocate, I have repeatedly stated that two terms or eight years in each elected position is enough. If serving eight years in the Illinois General Assembly was good enough for Abraham Lincoln, it is good enough for me,” Duffy, of Lake Barrington, said. Duffy won the election in 2008 as well as his 2012 re-election campaign. The 26th District covers southeastern McHenry County, southwestern Lake County, far northwestern Kane County and a sliver of Cook County, including all or parts of Crystal Lake, Lake in the Hills, Algonquin, Cary, Fox River Grove, Carpentersville and Barrington. Voters in 2008 elected Duffy to replace longtime Republican Sen. William Peterson, who retired after 16 years representing the district. Duffy entered the Senate at a tumultuous time, even by Illinois standards – one of the new Senate’s first tasks upon being seated in January 2009 was removing impeached Democratic
Photos by Matthew Apgar – mapgar@shawmedia.com
Betty Reckwerdt sits on her porch, flattening and folding plastic bags Sept. 2 at her home in Island Lake. Reckwerdt and others involved in the project retrieve plastic bags from Heinen’s and Island Foods, which have collection bins in their stores. Then they sort the bags by color and thickness. The bags are flattened then cut into strips and rolled into a ball of “plarn,” or plastic yarn, to be crocheted on the fourth Tuesday of each month at Transfiguration Church. The mats are donated to PADS to be distributed to the area’s homeless.
Residents turn plastic bags into mats Sherri Burn crochets a mat out of plastic bags in Island Lake. Burn works with her aunt, Betty Reckwerdt, on the project to benefit the homeless.
By KATIE DAHLSTROM ISLAND LAKE – Give Betty Reckwerdt 800 plastic bags and she will give a homeless person a comfortable night of sleep. Reckwerdt is one of dozens of women who participate in Mats for the Homeless, a loose collection of McHenry and Lake county residents who have been transforming plastic bags into mats for the homeless since 2012.
kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com “The first year we did 189,” Reckwerdt said. “Now we have no idea. God has just taken over and said, ‘You don’t need to count anymore.’ ” The project started with Reckwerdt’s mom, Justyna Davis. Before she died in 2012, Davis would collect plastic grocery bags, cut them into
See HOMELESS, page A9
How to help: To get involved, search Mats for Homeless on Facebook or call Transfiguration Parish at 847-526-2400.
See DUFFY, page A9
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