Wednesday, February 8, 2012

What's the real story behind the meth "bust"?

Yesterday morning (Tuesday, Feb. 7) the Northwest Herald carried a story about seizure of $25,000 worth of methamphetamine in Algonquin.

A press release (not available on the Sheriff's website) stated, according to the newspaper article, "A McHenry County Sheriff's Office K-9 unit observed a suspicious vehicle driving near the area of County Line and Randall roads," Nygren said in the release. "The K-9 unit followed the vehicle into a shopping center parking lot, and two unidentified male subjects quickly abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot."

So, here are some questions.

Who was the deputy with the police dog? It's no secret who the K-9 officers are in the McHenry County Sheriff's Department.

What vehicle was the deputy driving? Was he driving his MCSD marked K-9 unit with all the cop equipment on it? And the cage to hold his dog? Or was he driving another department vehicle? Maybe one without all the police marking (and maybe not even any manufacturer's emblems)? Was it a vehicle without a cage to protect his dog? Was it the vehicle assigned to a key official in the sheriff's department who has been on vacation for more than a few weeks? (Let's see; who could that be?)

Where did this deputy first encounter the suspicious vehicle? Could it possibly have been far, far out of McHenry County jurisdiction? Maybe well in toward Chicago? Even in Chicago?

How many miles had this deputy followed that vehicle?

Was the shopping center even in McHenry County, or was the deputy northbound on Randall Road (say, from I-90), when the occupants of the "suspicious vehicle" bailed and ran?

Being a K-9 officer with a highly-trained dog, why didn't he pursue the two who ran?

How close were other law-enforcement officers? Were, in fact, other law-enforcement officers quite close, perhaps even also following the "suspicious vehicle"?

What took so long for the Sheriff's Department to issue a press release for this incident, which occurred last Thursday?

Where's that quote from Ken Rossignol, out of his The Story of the RAG!? Here it is: "If a press release doesn't exist, the cops are trying to protect one of their own, one of their buddies, or, well, just about anyone. If the press release is short, most likely it's not because the story is short; they just don't want to talk about it."

The Sheriff's Department is a 24-hour operation. If something happens on a Thursday, the press release should be that day or the next day, meaning that the media should have had it on Friday. But the press release wasn't released until Tuesday.

Did Nygren sign that press release? Is he even in town? Was he in town last Thursday? Will he find big paw prints all over the back seat of his Tahoe?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's easier to buy liquor and cigarettes than it is to buy Sudafed.
Sudafed and Drano... what next, Red Bull?
Common sense is lost by our politicians.
Doh.

Justin said...

Your post, which I know from you is not satire; is beyond stupidity. What was he driving? Where was he? Why didn't he chase them? Once again you are filled with such venom toward the Sheriff that EVERYTHING any deputy does is demonized.

YOU are the joke and YOU are the fool. Not the cops on the street. They don't answer to you and never will...

You can see by the lack of people posting to your blog that they don't even waste their time. I type this knowing it won't see the light of day.

Gus said...

Concerned, here's my take.

Many readers of the story in the newspaper might assume that the K-9 deputy was driving a MCSD vehicle equipped as a K-9 vehicle; say, his marked squad or an undercover car with the proper cage for his four-legged partner.

You're certainly right that my post is not satire.

The press release would cause a reader to think that the K-9 deputy "just happened" upon the suspicious vehicle. What if he had been following them for 10-20-30 miles? Would readers feel differently?

What if the vehicle was abandoned in Kane County, not in McHenry County? Would that make a difference in the story?

Why didn't he chase them? Most cops can follow any driver for three blocks and observe probable cause for a traffic stop.

>>You can see by the lack of people posting to your blog that they don't even waste their time. <<

Actually, the deputies who would like to post are afraid to. If they post and get caught at it, they'll join Seipler and Milliman (and others) and then have to fight for years to get their jobs back and their back pay.