A police officer whose fatal shooting triggered a costly manhunt north of Chicago in fact committed suicide, carefully staging his death because he was about to be exposed as a thief, authorities said. Police Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz embezzled thousands of dollars from the Fox Lake Police Explorer programme for seven years, and spent the money on such things as mortgage payments, travel expenses, gym memberships and adult websites, Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Commander George Filenko said. “We have determined this staged suicide was the end result of extensive criminal acts that Gliniewicz had been committing,” Filenko...
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