State Crime Reports

Chicago Man Admits Mailing Scores of Threats, Including to Police Officers and Families After Cougar Was Killed in 2008

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 16, 2014. Following a lengthy investigation by the FBI-led Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Force, a Chicago man admitted today in Federal Court that he mailed more than 90 threatening and/or harassing letters to Chicago police officers, other government and law enforcement officials, private individuals, schools, and religious institutions in the Chicago area between November 2003 and December 2012.

The defendant, RICHARD D. HYERCZYK, 54, of Chicago’s Garfield Ridge neighborhood, pleaded guilty to one count…

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