City ordered to pay $3.9M
A jury on Tuesday ordered the City of Chicago to pay $3.9 million to the family of a man shot and killed by police in 2004, lawyers and city officials said. Ronald Mullins, 30, was shot three times and killed by Officer Geoffrey Roberts in a confrontation at a gas station across the street from the Austin District police headquarters. Police cleared Roberts of wrongdoing, but Gary Laatsch, one of the lawyers for Mullins’ survivors, said Roberts acted recklessly.
2 convicted inabduction plot
A federal jury convicted two men Tuesday of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and other charges in a plot to abduct two witnesses who testified in a Chicago drug case. Saul Sanchez, 38, of Cicero and Armando Garza, 36, of Berwyn were accused of plotting to abduct two witnesses who testified in the federal case in 2005, planning to take them to Mexico to settle a drug debt there.
Detectives bust fake ID ring
Cook County sheriff’s detectives have broken up a fake ID operation on the Southwest Side that sold hundreds of phony driver’s licenses, Social Security cards and Mexican commercial driver’s licenses out of a West Lawn home, authorities announced Tuesday. The raid Monday night near 60th Place and Lawndale Avenue led to the arrest of Guadalupe Arroyo Hernandez, 37, and her nephew, Javier Castillo, 19, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Penny Mateck.
