FOX LAKE, Ill. — Months before an Illinois police officer staged his suicide to look like murder, prompting an expensive manhunt that put his community under siege, he tried to find a hit man to kill a village administrator he feared would expose him as a thief, a detective told The Associated Press on Thursday. Det. Chris Covelli said Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz sent a text in April asking a woman to contact a “high ranking gang member to put a hit on the village manager.” Gliniewicz also texted that perhaps the hit man could “plant something” on the manager, Covelli said. Investigators found small packages of cocaine in his desk, “not linked to...
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