Suburban couple wants Will County prosecutors investigated for seizing their Ford Broncos, retirement savings – Chicago Sun-Times

Former gun store owner Jeff Regnier and wife Greta Keranen say prosecutors abused their power when they used Illinois’s civil asset forfeiture laws to try to take ownership of their property even though they weren’t convicted of crimes. A judge called the tactics “authoritarian,” but prosecutors say they were following the law.
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9mm
2 months ago

“Regnier, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in a Republican primary in 2022″…..

Throw in the guns and living in Illinois. That’s a big no no in progressive growing places like Will County.

Irish Patriot
2 months ago

Will County is the most backwards ‘Maybury’ one-party blue area in the state. Still thinking back to poor Kevin Fox, 20 years ago, falsely accused of killing his own daughter, while the real criminal, an ex-con just released from prison living half a mile away, left behind his prison issued shoe AT THE CRIME scene, roamed free for a year while Kevin languished in prison. He was eventually freed after his own DNA test exonerated him, but his kid was dead, his life in shambles, his finances in ruins, his family destroyed, his wife left him, and he died in… Read more »

Hello, Indiana!
2 months ago
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The incriminating shoes were in the trunk of a deputy’s patrol car. Although Fox did receive a huge settlement, one can still imagine he died a broken man. Sad.

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