Ill. Cop Charged With DUI in Fatal Crash

[Ghost in the Machine]

Ill. Cop Charged With DUI in Fatal Crash
Published: 11/23/07, 9:25 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) - A police officer charged with drunken driving in a car wreck that killed two men and injured a third was assigned to desk duty pending an internal investigation, a police spokesman said Friday.

John Ardelean, 33, was off duty when he was driving a sport utility vehicle that collided with a sedan carrying three men early Thursday on the city's North Side, police said.

Ardelean, a five-year veteran of the department, was charged with misdemeanor DUI and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, police spokesman John Mirabelli said. Police had originally reported Thursday that Ardelean had been charged with driving left of center.

Ardelean, who declined medical attention following the crash, also refused to take a blood-alcohol test at the scene.

"He refused the test. You have the right to refuse the test," police spokesman Pat Camden said in a story posted Friday on the Chicago Tribune's Web site. "(Evidence) can be based on your appearance, based on the officers on the scene, based on a number of different factors."

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[HCE SuiGeneris]

1. No double standards here. Nope. Uh,uh. Move along.

[DS1]

4. double standards!

perish the thought, our cops are all clean!

CLEAN!



btw, tells you something that the police refused the bac test

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. I'm gonna git me a taser so as I can be

CLEAN too!

[tularetom]

2. DUI? How about negligent homicide?

That's what they'd charge any citizen with in similar circumstances.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I had a co-worker whose 7 year old daughter was killed by a drunk cop

It was the saddest thing. The cop was their neighbor. He was coming home from another cop's funeral and the after the funeral drinking. My co-worker and her daughter were just coming home and the little girl went out to the curb to get the mail. The cop came flying around the corner and hit her. She flew 30 feet and landed in the middle of the street.

It was the very saddest funeral I have ever been to.

[karlrschneider]

6. And cops wonder why people call them pigs. I WAS a cop about 40 years ago

I worked my way through college as a cop in Tulsa, OK. That's a very long time ago but it seems thing haven't changed a hell of a lot. Our FOP lodge was well stocked with booze "confiscated" from anyone unlucky enough to be stopped for the never-fail "broken brake-light syndrome." One of the most visible cops in the department back then was one who regularly and loudly bragged about his latest "thumping" on someone who he thought needed it. His name was Ray Burch. He was one real tough guy. :-(

[happyslug]

7. Same Ray Burch listed here as the partner of Officer Hugh C. Greer Killed on April 27, 1962?

http://www.tpdmemorial.com/html/those_we_lost.html

Apparently, at trial, it was NEVER determined whose shot killed Greer, the Defendant with Greer's gun or Burch when Burch tried to shot the Defendant in the same gun fight. Here is the Defendant's appellant decision on the case (The Defendant received life Imprisonment):
http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=55095