Cicero sets dismissal hearing date for police commander in marijuana case

Town seeks to fire officer for unbecoming conduct

By Jo Napolitano | Chicago Tribune reporter
September 26, 2008



The Town of Cicero moved one step closer Thursday to firing a police commander who authorities said had marijuana in his car when he was pulled over in Chicago last January.

The town's Police Board rejected Wesley Scott's request to dismiss a complaint seeking his firing for conduct unbecoming an officer and set a Dec. 3 hearing date for the complaint.

Chicago police pulled Scott over Jan. 27 for failing to stop at a stop sign, officials said. Police said he had a burned marijuana cigarette in the car and 4.6 grams of the drug in a bag on top of his console. He was charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession, but the charge was dropped May 7 after he completed a drug school diversion program in Cook County.

Immediately after his arrest, Cicero officials put Scott on paid leave from his $80,000 position. Town officials ordered Scott to take a hair follicle drug test, but he was given a urine test instead, a mistake that wasn't discovered until test results showed he had passed it. Town officials immediately ordered him to take a hair follicle test, which can detect drugs in a person's system going back several weeks.

Cicero officials had declined to reveal the results of that test, but on Thursday officials said it "was neither negative nor positive. It was inconclusive because Scott did not have a sufficient quantity of hair to test."

After Cook County dismissed Scott's citation, Cicero moved to fire him, filing charges with the Police Board and ordering Scott put on unpaid leave. However, a month later, he was put back on the payroll while the town waits for the board to act.
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AHA! so some police do like this thing:thumbsup::jointsmile::D

but u see how he is treated differently than an average citizen? thats a pitty:(

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Somebody in the community should step forward and offer him a decent job. I wish more cops smoked. Then maybe there would be less violence in the police community. Get them off the steroids and on the herb.:jointsmile: