CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—August 4, 2014. A former west suburban Lyons police officer was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for illegally extorting more than $48,000 from targets of criminal investigations he was supposedly conducting during 2013. The defendant, JIMMY J. RODGERS, who was a 14-year veteran of the Lyons Police Department, was sentenced after pleading guilty in May to extortion.
Rodgers, 44, of Chicago, was assigned to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Office of…
