Ex-Chicago cop to go on trial after 14 years on the run
03/05/2019 7:36 am PST
via WGN:
CHICAGO -- (WGN) -- Attorneys will make their opening statements Tuesday in the trial of a former Chicago police sergeant accused of shaking down drug dealers.
Eddie Hicks was arrested in Detroit last year, after 14-years on the run.
The 70-year-old is charged with racketeering, drug, theft and firearm counts.
He fled Chicago in 2003 the day before his trial was supposed to start.
Prosecutors say Hicks led a crew of five men, including other cops, who robbed drug dealers, then re-sold the drugs.
Hicks was a longtime narcotics officer and retired from the Chicago Police Department while under federal investigation in March 2000.
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