Police: Fake cop tried to conduct traffic stop in yellow Camaro
A man has been charged with impersonating a police officer and trying to pull another driver over last month in west suburban Warrenville.
Authorities received a 911 call at 2: 06 p. m. on April 21 with reports that a man driving a newer- model yellow Chevrolet Camaro had tried to pull the caller over near Illinois Route 56 and Winfield Road in Warrenville, according to a statement from Warrenville police.
The driver of the Camaro, later identified as Jeffrey M. Spiewak, 56, of Aurora, displayed a gold- colored badge and pointed with his hand to tall the caller to pull over, police said. The victim did not comply.
Luke Wilusz
Police: 1 killed, 1 injured by car fleeing officers
A 55- year- old woman was killed and another person was injured when a car struck them Thursday
evening as it was fleeing officers in West Chatham, according to Chicago Police.
Officers had tried to pull over the car shortly before 6 p. m., when it took off in the 7900 block of South Lafayette, police said.
A 30- year- old man who was also hit was treated at the scene.
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Man charged in fatal Ike crash
Matthew D. Graff, 34, has been charged with DUI for a crash that left a man dead and a woman injured Sunday afternoon on the Eisenhower Expressway near west suburban Westchester.
Graff was driving a white 1993 Chevrolet Motorhome west at 3: 50 p. m. on I- 290 when it rear- ended a green 2005 Nissan that was stopped on the right shoulder near Mannheim Road, according to Illinois State Police.
The driver of the Nissan, 33- yearold Eduardo Moreno Torres, was killed. A 42- year- old woman who was a passenger in the Nissan was taken to a hospital with injuries that were serious but not life- threatening, state police said.
State police said drugs were “considered as a contributing factor in this crash.” Luke Wilusz
‘ Death Dealer’ tops Superman
Comic books featuring the debuts of Superman, the Joker and Catwoman fetched hundreds of thousands of dollars at a Chicago auction Thursday, but the star was undoubtedly a painting by artist Frank Frazetta.
Heritage Auctions says Frazetta’s “Death Dealer 6” painting sold for a whopping $ 1,792,500 — three times the $ 600,000 it was expected to get.
A 1938 Action Comics No. 1 in which Superman debuted sold for $ 573,600 — not the $ 650,000 the auction house thought it might go for. A Batman comic book from 1940 in which both the Joker and Catwoman debuted sold for $ 227,050.