From: [C upi] at [clari.net] (UPI)
Newsgroups: clari.news.crime.misc,clari.local.illinois.chicago,clari.news.alcohol+drugs,clari.news.law_enforce
Subject: Ford Hts. police chief arrested
Keywords: legal, criminal proceedings, nonviolent crime, police,
        US government, US municipal goverment
Organization: Copyright 1996 by United Press International
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:50:12 PDT
                                         
        CHICAGO, July 12 (UPI) -- Acting Ford Heights Police Chief Jack Davis  
was held Friday on federal charges that he accepted payoffs to protect 
drug dealers. 
        Davis, 58, allegedly accepted thousands of dollars from two drug  
dealers-turned-government informants, including cash payments made in 
the south suburb's police station and fire station. 
        FBI agents arrested Davis at his home Thursday afternoon.  
        He was held overnight at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in  
downtown Chicago on federal extortion charges and for aiding and 
abetting others in connection with narcotics distribution. 
        A criminal complaint alleges Davis accepted $1,000 to help one  
informant in a pending criminal case. The second informant allegedly 
paid Davis $4,000 to protect his drug dealing business and another $1, 
000 to increase police pressure on a rival drug dealing operation, 
investigators said. 
        U.S. Attorney Jim Burns said Davis accepted payments ranging from  
$500 to $2,000 from others ``for assurances he would protect their drug 
trade.'' 
        Prosecutors will argue that Davis should be denied bond because he is  
a flight risk and, according to Burns, already tried to tamper with 
witnesses. 
        Davis will appear Tuesday before a federal judge for a bond hearing.  
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