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CHICAGO — A veteran Chicago police officer pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony aggravated battery for striking an eighth grade boy earlier this year while making an off-duty visit to a South Side elementary school. Craig Lancaster, 55, was arraigned during a brief hearing before Cook County Judge Adrienne Davis at the Leighton Criminal Court Building. The judge barred the officer from ...

A veteran Chicago police officer pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony aggravated battery for striking an eighth grade boy earlier this year while making an off-duty visit to a South Side elementary school. Craig Lancaster, 55, was arraigned during a brief hearing before Cook County Judge Adrienne Davis at the Leighton Criminal Court Building. The judge barred the officer from contacting the ...

A former Chicago police sergeant on Monday pleaded guilty to a federal charge alleging he kidnapped and sexually abused someone in a squad car on the West Side in 2019.

James B. Sajdak, 65, faces up to a year in federal prison under a misdemeanor civil rights count. Federal prosecutors accused him of forcing a woman into his squad car to perform a sex act on him.

A former Chicago police sergeant who faced up to life in federal prison on charges stemming from the alleged on-duty sexual assault of a transgender woman pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor civil rights violation that could mean he avoids jail time. James Sajdak, 65, entered his plea to a misdemeanor count of violating the victim’s civil rights on March 5, 2019, in a hearing before U.S. ...