Posted on 04/11/2015 10:44:57 AM PDT by aimhigh
With his retirement rapidly approaching, Melrose Park Detective Gregory Salvi was looking to feather his nest. He moonlighted as a security guard to make a few extra bucks. But he also plotted to steal drugs and guns from the police department's evidence room, according to the FBI.
He also schemed to steal a crate of more than 30 guns from the Melrose Park Police Department evidence room and sell them to one of the informants, the FBI said. “The pistols, as soon as the chief gives us OK to destroy them, then I can get 'em,” Salvi allegedly told the informant on Feb. 25.
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Cops ARE criminals, more and more.
Gangsta rap, tats, attitude.
A Chicago cop who is a criminal ?
N A W !!
We had a town cop who was a member of the Contra Costa County (CA) Drug Task Force who was also selling drugs and guns. We had another cop who was arresting divorcing men for DUI for a PI who was working with a female attorney who was the attorney for their wives. The PI would send women into a bar where the husband was to get him loaded, with the promise of sex if he would just follow them home in his car. All are in jail now, but my bet is that they are the exception.
I just don’t buy the notion that most cops are honest servants of the people. Ditto for most DAs.
He's been an officer since 1997, said his attorney Adam Sheppard.
Raise your hand if you think this is the very first time he's ever done this sort of thing.
“Listen dude, I got f—— three months left in the police department. Okay? I'm trying to make whatever I can.”
The guy is 41 and has no more that 19 years on the job...and he is retiring.
Ah Chicago... like the whole police department is not corrupt.. top to bottom..
for many many decades..
However, as long as he is stand up, he will do a couple of years, and his family and kids won't get an acid bath on the way home from school.
When he gets out, again as long as keeps quiet about all he knows, he'll get his pension, and enough to be comfortable...
It's the Chicago Way.
I had an interesting conversation the other day with an ex-cop who was running the gym I go to. I commented that I was cop-supportive, but had run into a number who had serious power-trip attitudes. He agreed.
Then I asked him what percentage of the force that was. His answer was interesting. He said that it depends where you are, but in his experience, about 70 - 30 (normal vs. power-trippers). It was higher than I expected. Of course, that gives no read on the smaller percentage of really crooked bad apples, and it was too friendly a conversation to ask.
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