Month: August 2011
Driver didn’t tell police he drank
JOLIET – When Chicago Heights police told Cecil R. Conner Jr. to drive his girlfriend’s young son home, he didn’t argue. Whether the 22-year-old Steger man should have admitted to drinking was one of many points argued by attorneys Monday in Judge Edward Burmila’s courtroom. Defense attorney Jeffrey Tomczak told the court that he has
Mom blames cop, not boyfriend, for son’s death
JOLIET – As the trial opened against a Steger man accused of killing his girlfriend’s son in a drunken driving crash last spring, his attorneys focused their attention Monday on another man they say set the sad scenario in motion. It was Chicago Heights Officer Chris Felicetti who stopped the young boy’s mother, Kathie LaFond,