Biweekly bulletin promoting information sharing with local, state, federal law enforcement, in partnership with private industry, and financial institutions with the intentions of disrupting & dismantling regional, national, and transnational criminal enterprises through methodical investigations and successful prosecutions. THE CONTENT OF THIS BULLETIN MAY BE LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE (LES) &/OR FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY (FOUO) and is clearly branded at the top and bottom of the pages. Any further disclosure or dissemination of this bulletin or the information contained herein is strictly prohibited without the approval of the Cook County State s Attorney Regional Organized Crime Task Force. Elements of this bulletin may be subject to 28 CFR Part 23. Illinois DL or ID images are only for use as authorized by 625 ILCS 5/ /6-110.1 and 92 Ill. Adm. Code 1030.140. This information shalll not be released to the media or the general public. FAILURE TO ADHERE TO THESE POLICIES MAY RESULT IN CIVIL, CRIMINAL OR DISCIPLINARY ACTION. Regional 15 JULY 2015 NEWS River Forest police: Son wounds mom, kills man before fatal police shootout What began as a situation police are calling "domestic" eventually left two people deadd and three wounded after a Sunday morning shootout involving River Forest Police. Police say a River Forest man, identified as 24 year old Matthew Watson, shot his 59 year old mother and 60 year old William Carlson inside the home the three shared in the 100 block of Lathrop Avenue. Watson wounded his mother and killed Carlson, police said. When police arrived, they say he opened fire on them too. Watson died after a shootout with police. It began around 7:20 a.m., when a woman called 911 from the house complaining of shortness of breath before being disconnected. A dispatcher called her back but couldn't understand what the woman was saying. According to a recording of emergency responders' radio, officials assumed they were dealing with a domestic incident, so police officers responded to the home first. They were met by Watson, armed with a shotgun, and engaged in a shootout that left Watson dead and two River Forest police officers injured. "Responding officers were ambushed by an armed assailant with a shotgun," Deputy Police Chief James O'Shea said. "At that time, there was an officer involved shooting." One officer, a 15 year veteran of the River Forest force, was shot in his bulletproof vest, while a second police officer, a five year veteran of the force, was also injured, O'Shea said. On the emergency radio recording, one officer can be heard shouting, " Shots fired, he's got a shotgun! Shots fired, he's got a shotgun at the front door! " Later in the audio recording, an officer can be heard shouting, "You move and I'll kill you!" and, after the incident ends, "It appears we're OK." After the shootout, O'Shea said officers discovered the two gunshot victims inside the home. "It is believed those acts were committed prior to the officers' arrival," O'Shea said. "The officers were not involved in an altercation with anyone else in the home." O'Shea said the Illinois State Police recovered a shotgun at the scene during the investigation. The Cook County medical examiner's office conducted preliminary autopsies on Watson and Carlson on Monday. The report notes that Carlson died of a shotgun wound to his chest and ruled the death a homicide. Watson was killed by "multiple gunshot wounds," the report says. Watson'ss mother was reported to be in the hospital Sunday. The investigation is ongoing, according to O'Shea. It includes the River Forest Police Department as well as the Illinois State Police, the Cook County state's attorney's office, the West Suburban Major Crimes Task Force, and the Forest Park and Oak Park police departments. For further info: http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/river forest/news/ct rfl shooting update tl 0719 20150713 story.html CCROC INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
National For further info: http:/ //dailyridge.com/polk sheriff/2015/07/15/operation free ride organized retail crime investigation results in 36 arrests from wednesday july 8th through saturday july 11th/ Operation Free Ride Organized Retail Crime Investigation Results in 36 Arrests From Wednesday, July 8th through Saturday, July 11th Operation Free Ride Organized Retail Crime Investigation Results in 36 Arrests From Wednesday, July 8th through Saturday, July 11th, the PCSO Organized Retail Crimes Unit and partnering entities conducted a countywide operation focusing on those who shoplift from Polk County retail stores, and made 36 arrests. All of thesee suspects earned a freee ride to the county jail after attempting to steal merchandise. Our Organized Retail Crime task force works with area retailers and other law enforcement agencies to apprehend those who refusee to comply with the law. We are sending out this warning to everyone: if you shoplift in Polk County, you will go to jail. Sheriff Grady Judd The participating businesses involved in this investigation from Auburndale, Lakeland, Winter Haven, Lake Wales, and Haines City, were: Bealls Bealls Outlet Home Depot Lowes Macy s Target TJ Maxx Walmart. Detectives worked with loss prevention personnel at each store, focusing on identifying suspects who were trying to conceal items on their person and leave the stores without paying, and who were scanning items not being purchased in order to pay less for the items. Some of the suspects were consuming food in the stores, without paying for it. Of the 36 arrests, 30 were for Retail Theft, and 6 were for other crimes discovered during the investigation. Of the 36 arrests, 4 of those arrested were juveniles 3 for shoplifting, and one for marijuana possession. PCSO filed a total of 46 misdemeanor charges and 10 felony charges against the 36 suspects. The total value of items stolen by these suspectss is $691.00. 29 of the suspects have criminal histories, and 13 of the suspects told detectives they are receiving government assistance. Those with criminal histories have a combined total of 110 previous misdemeanor and 102 previous felony charges. During the operation, PCSO simultaneously hosted the second annual Organized Retail Crime Training, with 40 hours of instruction for law enforcement officers from across the country. The students were able to observe firsthand how to investigate retail theft and how to facilitate partnerships with retail loss prevention investigators to help prevent and solve crimes.
International Manhunt in Mexico after cartel boss Guzman escapes prison Mexican police are chasing drug baron Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman again. The Sinaloa cartel boss, arrested last year, tunneled out of his high security cell, in his second jailbreak. Guards have come in for questioning. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said that he was confident in the police's ability to recapture Joaquin Guzman, after his weekend escape through a 1.5 kilometer (1 mile) tunnel starting in the shower area of his cell. "This represents without a doubt an affront to the Mexican state," Pena Nieto, on a previously planned trip to France, said of the jailbreak. "But I also have the confidence in the institutions of the Mexican state that they have the strength and determination to recapture this criminal." Pena Nieto's government had received praise for its tough stance on the country's cartels, arresting or killing six major kingpins including Guzman since coming to power in 2012. The president was elected on a pledge to bring order to the country after years of struggling with gang violence. Joaquin "El Chapo" ("Shorty") Guzman runs the Sinaloa cartel, which has smuggled billions of dollars' worth of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine into the US in recent years, and fought fierce battles for influence with rival gangs in Mexico. According to Interpol information, Guzman is 58 years old. Prison employees questioned Guzman, who had managed to bribe his way out of a jail cell back in 2001, was seen entering the shower area in his cell at 8:52 p.m. local time on Saturday, according to the National Security Commission. Soon after, he disappeared from the Altiplano high security prison, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Mexico City. Investigators have since found a ladder, descending some 10 meters (32 feet) through a hole in the shower area. The tunnel itself, about 1.7 meters high and 70 80 centimeters wide, was around 1.5 kilometers long and professionally excavated. Police found a motorbike mounted on rails, thought to be used to cart away soil, and equipment to pump air into the tunnel. The passage was also lit. Guzman was able to surface in an abandoned house; The Associated Press reported a local resident noting that outsiders had bought the disused property around a year ago, immediately starting construction. Mexico's Federal Attorney General's Office said on Sunday that its unit for organized crime was interrogating around 30 employees from various parts of the prison. President Pena Nieto ordered an investigation to discover whether the gang leader received inside help, after the jailbreak took place in his home state of Mexico. Mike Vigil, former head of global operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, said that swiftly recapturing Guzman before he reaches his own safe zones could prove crucial, adding that Mexican authorities underestimated the Sinaloa gang. "I don't think they took into account the cunning of Chapo Guzman and the unlimited resources he has. If Chapo Guzman is able to make it back to the mountainous terrain that he knows so well in the state of Sinaloa he may never be captured," Vigil said. Cross border manhunt Guatemala's Interior Ministry said it was watching its border with southern Mexico, while the US which had urged Mexico to extradite Guzman when he was captured last year similarly offered help. "The US government stands ready to work with our Mexican partners to provide any assistance that may help support his swift recapture," US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said, noting that Guzman faces multiple drug running and organized crime charges in the US. Days after Guzman's 2014 arrest, President Pena Nieto had said that another "El Chapo" escape could not be tolerated. "Given what happened in the past, it would be worse than deplorable, it would be unforgiveable," he had said. For further info: http://www.dw.com/en/manhunt in mexico after cartel boss guzman escapes prison/a 18580387
INFORMATION SHARING B.O.L.O. A.T.I. F.Y.I. SAFETY At approximately 1457 hours on 06/30/15 the above pictured unknown African American female used a fraudulent gift card bearing our victim s credit card number to purchase over $100.00 worth of gift cards and merchandise from the CVS located at 2211 S. Eola Road. Numerous other attempts to use the card in the Aurora/Naperville area were made within a few hours after this incident, however, all additional transactions were declined after the initial purchase at the CVS. If you can identify the above pictured person, please contact me directly. Max Worcester Email: worcestm@apd.aurora.il.us Phone: 6302565553
On Tuesday 06/16/15 at 2315 hours the pictured subject entered the Walgreen's located at 1028 S. Elmhurst Rd., Mount Prospect and concealed some health and beauty items in his jacket. Subject was confronted by a store employee and he fled out of the store and to a waiting small white four door sedan. Subject described as a M/W, possibly Hispanic, 18 to 25 YOA, wearing a maroon floppy knit cap, black jacket, black shirt, blue jeans and white gym shoes. Anyone having or needing further information please contacted Detective Dirk Ollech at 847 818 5233 or dollech@mountprospect.org. Thanks Dirk Ollech Email: dollech@mountprospect.org Phone: 847-818-5233
On 6/27/15 my victim was shopping at a Goodwill store at Golf and Barrington Rd. The above female black offender entered the store and took the victim s purse from her shopping cart while she was not looking. Within 30 minutes the offender is captured on video at two different Walgreen s using the victims Master Card and Amex card to purchase two $500.00 Walgreens gift cards. The offender appears to have put her picture over the victims license photo while still in the wallet and shows that to the very unobservant clerks at Walgreen s. She is not asked to take the ID out of her wallet. I am awaiting more video that should give me a vehicle description. The offender can be clearly seen with two purses exiting the store above. The video quality is much better than the photos above. Anyone recognizes this woman please contact me at the number listed below or email me at rich.turman@hoffmanestates.org. Adam Boyd Email: aboyd@vhills.org Phone: (847) 247-4893 ON BEHALF OF:
Trends, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures Within this section, emerging trends, tactics, techniques, and procedures will be updated. If you have pertinent information regarding this subject, please forward the information to info@ccroc.us. Any information regarding potential threats to law enforcement officers, military personnel, and/or security personnel should be forwarded to your local police department immediately via emergency 9 1 1. Current trends require these threats be taken seriously. Stay Safe! During the CCROC conference on Sept 10/11, 2015, CCROC will be giving away 2 "in-need" donations to individuals that are in need of financial assistance. This need can be for medical or catastrophic need for a law enforcement (Federal, State, County or Local), states attorney, retail or bank employee who has a tie to CCROC. If you know anyone who may be in need please contact me and I will send you the application form. CCROC Member: Det. Lori Allsteadt lallsteadt@barrington-il.gov Barrington Police Department (847) 304-3308
Calendar of Events Within this section, at your request, we can post events that you wish to highlight for your organization to maximize participation and information sharing. If you wish to include an event, please forward the information to info@ @ccroc.us 2015 7 August 2015 Bi Monthly Investigative Meeting Organized by Andrea Hess and Scott Warren 10-11 September 2015 2015 CCROCC ANNUAL TRAINING & CONFERENCE McDonald's World Headquarters (Hamburgerr University) 2715 Jorie Blvd, Oakbrook, IL 60523 23 October 2015 11 December 2015 Bi Monthly Investigative Meeting Organized by Justin Bittner, Lori Allsteadt, Sam Martinez Bi Monthly Investigative Meeting Organized by Ed Henkel and Bill McNally
SPEAKERS INCLUDE: ANITA ALVEREZ BILL KURTIS LEO SCHMITZ MARK KIRK The Cook County State s Attorney s Office Regional Organized Crime 2015 Training and Conference Cook County State s Attorney CBS News, Cold Case Files, Investigative Reports Director, Illinois State Police US Senator (invited) SPEAKERS FROM: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ILLINOIS STATE POLICE COOK COUNTY STATE S ATTORNEY S OFFICE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WAL-MART ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND September 10 th and 11 th, 2015 Hamburger University at McDonald s Campus Oak Brook, Illinois Russian Organized Crime Asian Organized Crime Active Shooter ORC 101 and 102 Bank Crimes 101 and 102 Intellectual property Crimes Open Source /social media Investigations Forensic Accounting TOPICS INCLUDE: Sovereign Citizens, Domestic and International Terrorist Groups Case Presentations Prosecutor Panel Cell Phone Tracking Asset Forfeiture Money laundering Cyber-crime investigations Registration fee of only $80 includes beverages, breakfast, lunch and snacks for two days, parking, and all speakers and networking opportunities. If you have any questions contact David.Williams@cookcountyil.gov to register go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ccrocs-annual-trainingconference-2015-tickets-16453257135
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