Thread: Illinois police officer shot, prompting manhunt

Kristen Kiefer should be charged with aiding and abetting unlawful flight. What she did was very impossible to forgive.

. . . Kiefer, 30, of Vernon Hills, Ill., was charged early Thursday with disorderly conduct and falsifying a police report. She appeared before a Lake County judge late Tuesday and bail set at $100,000 . . .
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. . . Thursday, Filenko said that the officer's gun had been recovered. He did not provide details on the discrepancy of the initial reports and declined to comment on whether investigators believe Gliniewicz’s weapon may have been used in the shooting . . .
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Police turn over video to DHS in cop-killer hunt

Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY5:49 p.m. EDT September 3, 2015

(Photo: Nam Y. Huh, AP)


Law enforcement officials searching for three suspects believed to be involved in the fatal shooting of a police officer in Fox Lake, Ill., say they have turned over private home security video to theDepartment of Homeland Security that they are hopeful may provide a break in the case.



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Cmdr. George Filenko, who oversees the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force, said officials received the video on Wednesday evening, but local investigators were not able to view it because they did not have the proper equipment to retrieve the video from the system’s hard drive. As a result, his agency has sought the help of a DHS lab in the Chicagoland area.

Filenko says the resident who turned over the video told authorities the footage shows three people near the scene of where Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was found dead minutes after he radioed dispatchers that he was investigating three suspicious men he spotted in a desolate area of town.

He declined to provide further information about the video, but said it could provide potentially “significant” information.

“Homeland Security has got the advanced equipment,” Filenko said. “This video is on a particular hard drive that they have the technology to retrieve it off of.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials confirmed in a statement that the agency's homeland security investigations directorate was assisting the task force, but declined further comment.

The development comes as police are now in the third day of their searching for the suspects in Gliniewicz’s shooting death, who was found dead by colleagues in a marshy, industrial section of the community just minutes after he called for backup on Tuesday morning.

Authorities initially told reporters that equipment, including Gliniewicz’s gun, were stripped from his body after he was shot.

But on Thursday, Filenko said that the officer's gun had been recovered. He did not provide details on the discrepancy of the initial reports and declined to comment on whether investigators believe Gliniewicz’s weapon may have been used in the shooting.

Hundreds of law enforcement officers from several local, state and federal agencies established a perimeter of the crime scene soon after the shooting. And agencies have bulked up patrols and canvassed the area over the last two days in hopes of finding the men they believe are involved in the shooting.



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The task force has only the vaguest description of the suspects. Two are described as white males and one was described as a black male, based on what Gliniewicz told dispatchers shortly before he was gunned down.

Late Wednesday, more than 100 officers were deployed not far from the shooting scene after a woman claimed that she had been approached by two men while she had stopped on the side of a road with car trouble. Police also dispatched 11 police dogs and three aircraft into the area after receiving what they thought could be a significant break in the case.

The woman, Kristin Kiefer, initially told investigators the men told her they wanted her to drive them to Wisconsin and even tried to get in the car. She later acknowledged that she had lied to investigators in a bid to get the attention of people who employ her as a nanny, according to Lake County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Christopher Covelli.

Filenko said officers spent about five hours searching in the area Kiefer claimed to have seen the men.

Kiefer, 30, of Vernon Hills, Ill., was charged early Thursday with disorderly conduct and falsifying a police report. She appeared before a Lake County judge late Tuesday and bail set at $100,000.

“It tied up a number of my resources, including my detectives who were called in and put on standby,” Filenko said. “They could have been out there in the field following up on leads.”

Filenko added that a funeral service for Gliniewicz was expected to take place on Monday.

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