CHICAGO (AP) — A Cook County judge has found a Chicago Police officer guilty of perjury for lying under oath during a drug trial but acquitted his supervisor and a suburban officer.
When he handed down his verdicts on Wednesday, Judge Matthew Coghlan said that he found Officer William Pruente guilty of felony perjury because he knew that that the police report he filed and his subsequently testimony during a 2014 trial weren’t correct. The 55-year-old Pruente was also found guilty of obstruction of justice and official misconduct.
Coghlan acquitted Chicago Police Sgt. James Padar and former Glenview patrol officer James Horn after concluding that they had relied on Pruente’s report and summary.
A fourth officer pleaded guilty in September to a misdemeanor count of obstruction of justice.
