New Details Emerge in Fox Lake Investigation of Former Police Chief

More details surrounding an internal investigation into the former Fox Lake Police Department Chief were revealed Tuesday in a WGN news report. The details come over six weeks after an investigation began into the death of Fox Lake Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, who was found shot dead in the small northern Illinois town.

WGN News reports the village was seeking approval to pay $25,000 for a private detective agency to investigate its former chief of police, who resigned after being put on paid leave. A short time later, Gliniewicz was asked by an administrator with the village to assist with an internal police review, according to WGN.

One day later, on Sept. 1, he was found dead after being shot by his own weapon.

The Chicago Tribune reported in late August that Fox Lake Police Chief Michael Behan, a 33-year veteran with the Fox Lake Police Department, and a police officer, who had been with the department for 17 years, were placed on paid administrative leave.

Shortly before that, the village began an investigation into an incident that occurred in December 2014 and involved a 36-year-old man who was taken into custody for public intoxication, according to the article.

The man got into a verbal and physical altercation with the police officer. Fox Lake Village Administrator Anne Marin said, though the officer was disciplined, “the village has concerns with respect to how the incident was investigated, when it was investigated and how decisions regarding findings and discipline were reached,” according to the Chicago Tribune.

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