Crime & Safety

Former Cop Sues Orland Hills, Claims Clout Cost Him His Job

Officer claims he was fired after telling the FBI that his superiors threw out traffic tickets.

A former Orland Hills police officer claims in a lawsuit that his superiors bowed to pressure from a former mayor to release her son from tickets, and was fired when he brought the claim to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Sun-Times Media reports.

The suit alleges that Officer David Kristofek was instructed to give all written information on two traffic charges to superiors at the , and to delete all computer information entered about the tickets, according to the report.

Kristofek pulled over a car and wrote tickets for driving with a suspended license and driving without proof of insurance on Nov. 12, 2010. During the traffic stop, Kristofek was handed a cell phone and a woman, described as “a former mayor of a southwest suburb,” asked Kristofek not to ticket her son, according to Sun-Times Media.

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Kristofek was told he could either resign or be fired after he notified the FBI about the ticket tossing, according to the report.

Messages left for Kristofek and for Orland Hills Police Chief Tom Scully were not immediately returned Monday.

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