Police chief who quit after 2 DUIs still getting paid

Former Robbins police Chief Johnny Holmes — who re retired in January after being charged with his second DU DUI in the past three years — will keep getting paid $1 $1,923 every two weeks through April 19 because he do doesn’t have a state pension, village officials say.

Village Trustee Shantiel Simon said Holmes signed up up for a retirement plan through the state, then opted out, and the Robbins village administration never signed him back up.

“We knew we had to let him go, but we thought about hi his family, and here’s a guy that’s about to walk away w with nothing,” Simon said.

Holmes, who is also a member of the Community High School District 218 Board, was arrested in Midlothian in December for driving drunk..

According to court records, Holmes had been sentenced to court supervision and paid more than $1,000 in in fees for an earlier DUI arrest, in 2010.

Holmes was put on paid leave from March through M May 2010 but kept his job, though he was ordered to turn in the keys he had for any village-owned vehicles.

Holmes had two stints as police chief since 1991. He w was fired in December 2003 for “deficiencies in current po police services and continuous complaints from citizens,” ac according to a letter from outgoing Mayor Irene Brodie.

He was rehired as chief two years later with a $1 $10,000 pay increase, boosting his pay to $50,000, acco cording to village records.

The Cook County sheriff ’s police — now aiding the Ro Robbins department — said last month it had discover ered 51 untested rape kits sitting in a Robbins police evidence room, some dating to 1981.

Holmes did not respond to messages seeking comment.