Monday, February 27, 2012

Pyle indicted by grand jury

McHenry County Sheriff's Sgt. Greg Pyle has been indicted by the McHenry County Grand Jury on the charges for which he was arrested on January 7. Those charges are ten counts of Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child.

In a press release on Thursday, February 23, the names of those indicted were released.

I may have missed it in the Northwest Herald, which I still get at my doorstep, but I cannot find the news in the online editions of the Northwest Herald, Daily Herald or Chicago Tribune.

Maybe this indictment will wake up those upstairs at the Sheriff's Department and the Sheriff will not cancel the March 14 of the Sheriff's Department Merit Commission. It should have met in February to examine Pyle's employment, but that meeting was canceled. Now that Pyle has been indicted, will the Merit Commission meet on March 14?

Wasn't Pyle one of the sheriff's I.T. guys? Didn't he get special training regarding internet investigations? Was he ever asked (or directed) to cross the line and attempt to identify deputies who were writing blogs anonymously or submitting comments on other blogs?

If he ever was asked to do something like that, could he flip that into leverage for some type of leniency if he "talked"?

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