Post by Site Admin on Sept 13, 2005 5:54:51 GMT -5
Ex-cop charged with misconduct
With Waukegan police: Woman was asked to disrobe
By Frank Abderholden
STAFF WRITER
WAUKEGAN — A former Waukegan police officer has been charged with official misconduct after he allegedly had a woman disrobe inside a hotel room after answering a domestic call.
Mario Antilloni, 36, of Waukegan turned himself in Friday morning to Waukegan police after a warrant was issued for his arrest, said Waukegan Police Cmdr. Daniel Greathouse.
The official misconduct charge is a Class 3 felony. Antilloni was released on a recognizance bond and is scheduled to appear in Lake County Circuit Court on July 28, Greathouse said.
"We take complaints of this magnitude very seriously and we investigate them very thoroughly. No one is above the law," said Greathouse.
Antilloni had been a police officer with the city for exactly one year. Officers are on a probation period for 18 months.
"He no longer works for the Waukegan Police Department," Greathouse said, adding that he could not discuss if Antilloni resigned or was fired.
According to the complaint a 25-year-old Rockford woman called 9-1-1 on June 12 around 5 a.m. from the Budget Inn at 31 N. Green Bay Road to report a domestic dispute and she wanted her boyfriend to leave the hotel room.
She called 9-1-1 back a short time later and said no one needed to show up because her boyfriend had left. Greathouse explained that it is department policy for the dispatched officer to continue on the call to make sure that everything is all right.
Antilloni responded to the call and met with the woman in her hotel room and confirmed that the boyfriend had left. After a while he told the woman she would have to disrobe, taking off all her clothes, and that this was police procedure, Greathouse said.
Greathouse said Antilloni subsequently left, but the woman said it bothered her that she had to disrobe and she began questioning if that was procedure so she called her hometown police department in Rockford, and told them what happened.
"They said that was in no way proper procedure and told her to contact Waukegan police again and ask for a supervisor," he said.
Police launched a criminal, not an administrative, investigation immediately, he said.
Greathouse said it has been some time since the department has had an official misconduct case and "we've never had a case like this one," he said.
"It was a criminal case right from the beginning because of the severity of the allegations," he said.
The incident follows on the heels of another somewhat similar case of an Illinois State Trooper from Beach Park, Jeremy Dozier, who was charged with two counts of official misconduct after he had a young couple he found inside a vehicle at the Hampton Inn in Gurnee strip and run around a construction site in April.
He also made a couple strip and run down into a ditch along the Tri-State Tollway in Northbrook on June 16, according to charges.
With Waukegan police: Woman was asked to disrobe
By Frank Abderholden
STAFF WRITER
WAUKEGAN — A former Waukegan police officer has been charged with official misconduct after he allegedly had a woman disrobe inside a hotel room after answering a domestic call.
Mario Antilloni, 36, of Waukegan turned himself in Friday morning to Waukegan police after a warrant was issued for his arrest, said Waukegan Police Cmdr. Daniel Greathouse.
The official misconduct charge is a Class 3 felony. Antilloni was released on a recognizance bond and is scheduled to appear in Lake County Circuit Court on July 28, Greathouse said.
"We take complaints of this magnitude very seriously and we investigate them very thoroughly. No one is above the law," said Greathouse.
Antilloni had been a police officer with the city for exactly one year. Officers are on a probation period for 18 months.
"He no longer works for the Waukegan Police Department," Greathouse said, adding that he could not discuss if Antilloni resigned or was fired.
According to the complaint a 25-year-old Rockford woman called 9-1-1 on June 12 around 5 a.m. from the Budget Inn at 31 N. Green Bay Road to report a domestic dispute and she wanted her boyfriend to leave the hotel room.
She called 9-1-1 back a short time later and said no one needed to show up because her boyfriend had left. Greathouse explained that it is department policy for the dispatched officer to continue on the call to make sure that everything is all right.
Antilloni responded to the call and met with the woman in her hotel room and confirmed that the boyfriend had left. After a while he told the woman she would have to disrobe, taking off all her clothes, and that this was police procedure, Greathouse said.
Greathouse said Antilloni subsequently left, but the woman said it bothered her that she had to disrobe and she began questioning if that was procedure so she called her hometown police department in Rockford, and told them what happened.
"They said that was in no way proper procedure and told her to contact Waukegan police again and ask for a supervisor," he said.
Police launched a criminal, not an administrative, investigation immediately, he said.
Greathouse said it has been some time since the department has had an official misconduct case and "we've never had a case like this one," he said.
"It was a criminal case right from the beginning because of the severity of the allegations," he said.
The incident follows on the heels of another somewhat similar case of an Illinois State Trooper from Beach Park, Jeremy Dozier, who was charged with two counts of official misconduct after he had a young couple he found inside a vehicle at the Hampton Inn in Gurnee strip and run around a construction site in April.
He also made a couple strip and run down into a ditch along the Tri-State Tollway in Northbrook on June 16, according to charges.