Pubdate: Tue, 23 Sep 2003
Source: Chicago Tribune (IL)
Copyright: 2003 Chicago Tribune Company
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/82
Author: John Biemer
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/corrupt.htm (Corruption - United States)

5 OFFICERS NABBED IN STING OUT ON BOND, 2 ARE DETAINED

Men Allegedly Took Cash And Cocaine From Fake Dealers

A federal judge allowed five of the nine current or former law enforcement 
officers arrested last week in an undercover FBI sting for allegedly 
stealing money and fake cocaine to be released Monday on bond. Two others 
were ordered detained.

All nine appeared in U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Mason's courtroom 
Monday. Detention hearings for two of the men were continued until later 
this week.

Mason asked the wives and parents who signed on secured bonds of $100,000 
to $150,000 if they understood that their homes could be seized if the 
accused officer did not comply with court orders, which included electronic 
monitoring.

Mason ordered that Cook County Sheriff's Deputy Jerome Coleman, 36, of 
Chicago, and Cook County Forest Preserve District Police Officer James 
Turner, 58, of Chicago, each be detained as a potential danger to society. 
Coleman had worked as a courtroom bailiff until he had his police powers 
stripped in August due to an alleged off-duty fight he got into in which he 
discharged his weapon, according to the sheriff's department.

Turner was ordered detained because prosecutors said he has seven guns at 
his home, including one with an obliterated serial number. His attorney, 
Francis Speh, argued that law enforcement officers tend to have guns, and 
these are not loaded and include one BB gun. "There is not a basis to worry 
about this man," Speh said.

Sting operations starting last April included the robbery of an undercover 
agent posing as a drug dealer and four thefts from FBI cars planted to look 
like they were owned by dealers.

The two whose bond hearings were delayed were CSX Railroad Officer John 
Carter, 32, of Lynwood, and Cook County Forest Preserve District Police 
Officer Reginal Ross, 57, of Chicago.

The five released on bond were: Cook County Sheriff's Deputy Raymond Grady, 
32, of Calumet City; Anthony Brown, 33, of Richton Park, an Illinois 
Department of Corrections parole agent; Malcom C. "Wire" Gougis, 35, of 
Palatine, a former Seattle police detective; Jesse Kuykendoll, 42, of 
Chicago, a Department of Corrections parole agent; and Marcus J. "Mac" 
McFadden, 31, of Blue Island, a Robbins police officer.
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