Hate Crime Guy Catches Identity Theft Case: Cops

A Beechern teen facing a hate crime case for allegedly menacing black youths with a gun and shouting a racial slur is now wanted on felony identity theft charges.

Jacob Slager, 19 and free on a $250,000 bond, is going to have to come up with another $2,500 to bail out again when the cops catch up with him. Slager faces six counts of identity theft for allegedly using a Beecher woman’s debit cards to buy cigarettes and booze.

Slager was locked up last month on three counts of committing a hate crime, two counts of the aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and two counts of reckless discharge of a firearm. An unidentified 17-year-old was charged as a juvenile with the same crimes. The younger teen was taken to River Valley Juvenile Detention Center.

Witnesses reportedly told police they saw two young men in a red Jeep “drive by the area and display a handgun and fire shots in the air.”

The stepfather of the two youths allegedly menaced by Slager and the other teen told Patch that Slager actually fired his gun at the young men and called them n-----s.

The stepfather, Will County Deputy David Svalina, said he moved his family from Chicago to Beecher to escape gang violence. Svalina said he quit his job as a Chicago cop so he could relocate his family.

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