Chicago Police employee gets 2 years for stealing cash, property from evidence - Chicago Sun-Times
A Cook County jury found 59-year-old Pamela Brown guilty on July 24 of two felony counts of official misconduct after she was caught on video stealing items from prisoner inventories, according to a statement from the Cook County state’s... In her job as a property custodian, Brown was responsible for sorting through prisoners’ forfeited property and turning in any money or valuable items to her supervisor, prosecutors said. Brown, then a 19-year employee, became the target of an internal investigation in February 2012 after supervisors noticed a reduction in her inventory records, the state’s attorney’s office said. After reviewing the footage, investigators placed 26 bills, totaling $200–which she would have been required to turn in to her supervisor–into property Brown was responsible for reviewing, prosecutors said. Source: chicago.suntimes.com
