Lynwood Cop Wrongly Jailed For 'Honeybee' Shootings Pleads the 5th on Drug Question

The Lynwood police officer paid $126,500 for spending five days in jail after he was wrongly charged with the Honeybee Killer’s string of gun attacks refused to say whether drugs were found in his house the night he was taken into custody.

Brian Dorian, 42, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when questioned about any drugs found in his house the night he was arrested in October 2010. Dorian was put on the spot during a February 2014 deposition for his lawsuit against the Will County Sheriff’s Department, former Sheriff Paul Kaupas and three investigators.

“Did you have—I’m sorry to skip around here, but in the house at the time that you were handcuffed at the house on October 7th, were there controlled substances in the house of any kind?” Daniel Duffy, the attorney representing the sheriff’s department and other defendants asked Dorian, according to a transcript

Dorian’s attorney, Gregory Kulis, then jumped in and said, “Hold on a second,” according to the transcript.

“I have to think this one through,” Kulis said, “and I don’t know what your answer is. I think we should plead the Fifth on this.”

“I’m not answering that question,” Dorian later said. When asked if he was invoking his Fifth Amendment right, he said, “Based on the advice of my lawyer, yes.”

The transcript makes no other mention of whether detectives found “controlled substances” in Dorian’s home. A spokeswoman for the sheriff’s department declined to discuss the matter and suggested requesting the answer through the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Patch has done so.

Kulis also did not want to talk about whether drugs were found in his client’s home.

“There has been a settlement and I cannot comment on the facts of the case, other than that this matter is resolved,” Kulis said.

“Brian is very happy that he has been vindicated and this matter is resolved,” he said. “He is proud and he is going on with his life.”

Dorian was arrested during the investigation of a murderous shooting spree along both sides of the Illinois-Indiana border. The gun attacks claimed the life of one man and left another two wounded.

Dorian spent the Columbus Day weekend of 2010 in jail. He was freed after investigators determined he had been using a computer in his home during the shootings and could not have carried out the attacks.

During his deposition, Dorian said that after he was arrested he eventually told his attorney, Dave Carlson, who is now a Will County judge, that he “often” peruses various websites, including “Facebook, like a little girl, Northwest Indiana Times, Chicago Breaking News and some others.” Then, after some prodding, acknowledged visiting pornographic websites but could not remember if he had looked at them while the Honeybee Killer was off shooting people, according to the transcript

“I only surf this one or that one, Youporn or Redtube,” Dorian said, according to the deposition.

Dorian filed a federal lawsuit the year after his arrest. He claimed conspiracy, false arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. He was looking to get $10 million.

About two months after Dorian was arrested, 48-year-old Gary Amaya of the small, central Illinois town of Rankin was shot down while trying to rob an Orland Park tanning salon. Amaya was killed with his own gun during a struggle with bystander Jason McDaniel. The Will County Sheriff’s Department said the gun was the same one used in the Honeybee Killer’s shooting spree.

The Honbeybee case got its name from the gunman asking his victims about honeybees before firing on them.

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