Former employee threatens Panera Bread

This morning's Northwest Herald carried an article with an astonishing amount of information about a crime involving Panera Bread - without naming which Panera. Which Panera must be a secret.

A secret fairly easily solved, I would guess. Since Woodstock Police filed the felony complaint with the McHenry County State's Attorney Office and Woodstock is listed as the Filing Type, my guess is that it was the Woodstock Panera Bread that was involved.

I wonder what the urgency would be about withholding that information.

But the real area of interest about this is the amount of information about this active case that was released to the reporter.

Compare this case to the Beth Bentley case - the case of a missing resident, a missing human being - a lot more important than a former employee's alleged threats to expose "harmful information" about his previous employer. Woodstock PD has denied FOIA requests for Bentley information, citing the potential to interfere with an investigation.

In the case against Charles r. Wagner, 47, a Woodstock resident and former employee at a Panera Bread (in Woodstock?), the Northwest Herald reporter wrote that "He is accused of demanding an undisclosed amount of money, or he would reveal what police called harmful information intended to damage the reputation of Panera Bread..."

Two more paragraphs of information about the case were given in the article. You can read today's article in the online edition of the Northwest Herald. Or you could spend 75¢ for today's paper or break down and subscribe to it for $10/month and find it on your doorstep every morning.