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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 2001
Page
3
A sting operation with help from an accused fakes seller named Joseph M. Kalady led prosecutors to charge eight customers with producing or attempting to produce false identification. Kalady, 61, allegedly masterminded the scheme by fraudulently obtaining and selling Social Security cards and passports along with counterfeit birth certificates.
William Hanhardt, 72, wearing an orange federal prisoner jumpsuit, pleaded guilty to masterminding about $5 million in jewelry thefts. He led a thieves’ ring that pulled eight heists across seven states over more than a decade and agreed to pay $4.845 million in restitution. He faces up to twelve years in prison.
Protesters abandoned a court challenge to a downtown Chicago ban on demonstrations at Federal Plaza after a government order. Judge James Holderman dropped the suit at the Stop Police Brutality Coalition’s request, noting the bar’s end-of-year timeline.
Washington AP Gov. George Ryan’s homeland security coordinator Matt Bettenhausen praised Illinois for terrorism readiness and sought congressional support for a package. He cited 6 million for a Chicago Coast Guard station 65 million for a statewide mobile radio network and urged a FEMA urban search and rescue team in Chicago plus a strategic drug cache site at Hines VA Hospital Chicago.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Sen. Durbin coordinate with Illinois lawmakers to win FEMA search and rescue capacity and Coast Guard base funding. Proposals include a base near Navy Pier, integration with state security efforts, and a $65 million boost for a statewide mobile radio network for the Illinois State Police.
Sangamon County prosecutors say Ollie Davis, 19, and Dennis Scott, 20, both of Springfield, face first degree murder, attempted first degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in the deaths of Adam Widner, 20, his mother Margaret Malady, 43, and Sabrina Cole, 22, and the wounding of Eric Widner, 22. Davis is in Sangamon County Jail on 40 million dollars bond. Scott remains at large.
Marengo in McHenry County hosts a new mobile radar station set up by Wisconsin Air National Guard troops. The system boosts surveillance of Chicago airspace to aid a Wisconsin jet fighter wing patrolling the region.
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