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| Police sting fools 102 fugitives |
| By nwherald.com - DON BABWIN - AP |
| Published: 10/05/2011 |
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CHICAGO – The chance to test out the latest video games and other electronics and get paid $75 to boot seemed too good to be true. It was. On Tuesday, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced that more than 50 fugitives being sought on arrest warrants were arrested when they showed up at a Chicago warehouse for what they thought was going to be a day of electronics fun. About 50 more were arrested after the fake electronics event. In a news release, Dart said that members of his office sent 10,000 letters to the last known address of people who had warrants from Cook County for their arrest. While the vast majority came back undeliverable, the release said that some people called the phone number on their letter. Not knowing they were talking to members of the department’s warrants unit and not employees at a marketing company, they made appointments to come to a county warehouse on Chicago’s Southwest Side. Then, between Sept. 17 and Sept. 24 they started showing up. Read More. |
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