More Dark And Bizarre Revelations From The Fox Lake Bad Cop's Personnel File

By Kate Shepherd in News on Nov 6, 2015 5:50PM

It's hard to believe but there are even more weird details coming out about the Fox Lake police officer who allegedly staged his suicide to look like a murder.

Just a day after it was alleged he tried to have a village administrator killed, a copy of his personnel file has been released and it's full of red flags from 30 years in the department, including suspensions and allegations of sexual harassment and intimidation, according to the Tribune. Anonymous members of the police wrote letter to Fox Lake's mayor in 2009 saying Gliniewicz's conduct and lack of consequences had "destroyed morale in the department." It referenced the 2003 sexual harassment lawsuit brought by his former subordinate Officer Denise Sharpe Gretz.

In May of 1988 he was found unconscious in his running car and a sheriff's deputy said it wasn't even the first time an incident like that had happened:

Gliniewicz was found "passed out" in the driver's seat of his truck on the shoulder of a Fox Lake road, with the engine running and his foot on the gas. Officers took Gliniewicz home and towed his truck, but when he awoke later that day he had no memory of what happened and reported his truck as stolen to the Lake County sheriff's office. He later said he'd been drinking after playing volleyball with friends.

It wasn't the last time something like that happened to him either. Just three months later, he was suspended for two days for failing to report to work after drinking and playing volleyball with friends.

A dispatcher claimed he told her he'd putting "bullets in her chest" and her body in a lake in 2003. She wrote a letter reporting the incident and said "she felt threatened at the time but later concluded the comment was made in jest after she was behaving in an immature and disrespectful way and no longer believed it was a threat." Then just two days later she wrote another letter saying that he had intimidated her by bringing a gun into the room where she was working.

Not long after the dispatcher incident, he was accused of allowing himself access to a sensitive recording system without authorization and the chief eliminated his position leading support services around the same time partially because of "problems with the communications division."

Yet he was still promoted to lieutenant after these 2003 incidents.