From CBS 2 Chicago:
A broke Chicago police who allegedly made a habit of helping himself to chips and soda without paying for them at a West Side liquor store found himself the target of an unusually sad federal sting.Ramirez' attorney called the charges against the sergeant "malarkey." But Second City Cop strongly disagrees.
Now Sgt. Ray M. Ramirez is looking at up to 20 years behind bars if he's convicted of extorting the store’s owner in a series of petty scams, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
The 49-year-old, who works in the Near West district, was a daily visitor at the store, where he;d show up in uniform and hang out for up to an hour and "openly take items in front of the store’s employees," a federal complaint alleges.
Ramirez, whose bank account was often in the red, also targeted a convenience store where he openly stole Newport cigarettes, chips and laundry detergent, and asked store workers for small cash "loans" he didn't fully pay back, it's alleged.
Malarkey? Actually, it's the lawyer spouting bullshit. Ramirez has had a bad rep on this site for years, asking fellow officers and supervisors for "loans" that he never repaid and probably never had any intention of repaying. There were case reports generated and Complaint Register numbers obtained.Technorati tags:
In any event, another black eye for the Department
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