Saturday, February 19, 2011
Stephen Peterson's attorney will appeal the Oak Brook Fire and Police Board decision, which concluded that he obstructed a murder investigation involving his father, Drew Peterson.
Twenty-five years ago, Drew Peterson was fired from his job as a police officer. On Saturday, his son, Stephen Peterson, was fired for obstructing a state police murder investigation of his father. The three-man Oak Brook Fire and Police Board voted unanimously to dismiss Stephen Peterson from the department for which he worked for more than six years. "This court is a kangaroo court, for lack of a better word," said Stephen Peterson's union attorney, Tamara Cummings, as she vowed to continue fighting for her client's job. "We've won on appeal three times before, and we're going to win this time," Cummings said, referencing three successes she has had reducing prior suspensions of Stephen Peterson. Cummings has 35 days to file her appeal …
Monday, January 10, 2011
The Oak Brook Fire and Police Board will meet again to decide whether to fire Drew Peterson's police officer son for hiding his father's guns, among other actions.
The Oak Brook Police and Fire Board deliberated for an hour Monday night before emerging from an executive session without announcing if it will fire the embattled police officer son of accused wife-killer Drew Peterson. According to Board Chairman Fred Capetta, the three-man board already has devoted two nights of testimony to the case of Oak Brook Patrol Officer Stephen Peterson, and convened once in private to mull over whether he should stay on the force in Oak Brook. “We want to be real fair, judicious,” Cappetta said before heading in to the closed session with fellow commissioners, Edward Nielsen and John Pircon, and village attorney Mark Sterk, who attended to offer legal advice, but is not a member of the board. The Illinois …
Oak Brook's Fire and Police Board has decided to wait 23 days before deciding whether to fire Drew Peterson's son.
Stephen Peterson, son of former Bolingbrook Police Officer Drew Peterson, will have to wait another 23 days to find out whether he will lose his job as an Oak Brook police officer. Suspended with pay since August, Stephen Peterson will continue to get paid while he waits. Three members of Oak Brook's Fire and Police Board will meet Monday night as scheduled, but will only deliberate behind closed doors without announcing their decision, as they had said they would last month. Village Manager David Niemeyer said he did not know the reason for the delay. "They're just not making a decision tonight," Niemeyer said. "I'm not privy to what their deliberations are." Stephen Peterson is on the hot seat for hiding three of his infamous father's …
Friday, December 10, 2010
Peterson believes his father would never give him an illegal weapon.
Drew Peterson's son denied any wrongdoing stemming from keeping three of his father's guns—including an illegal assault rifle—while state police searched his father's house. "I am completely not guilty of those charges," said Oak Brook Police Officer Stephen Peterson, 31, who testified during a Thursday night disciplinary hearing to determine whether he will lose his job as a result of keeping the guns for his father and not disclosing that his father transferred more than $230,000 to him after the disappearance of his stepmother, Stacy Peterson. "I in no way obstructed any investigation." Peterson said he believes the charges had more to do with his father than with him. "As as soon I was subpoenaed by the state to testify in my …
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Peterson's son did not disclose he was in possession of his father's weapons while State Police executed a search warrant on Drew Peterson's home following the disappearance of Stacy Peterson.
Oak Brook Police Chief Thomas Sheahan testified Thursday night that he believed Officer Stephen Peterson held back crucial evidence while the Illinois State Police were trying to find his missing stepmother, Stacy Peterson. Stephen Peterson is the son of Drew Peterson, currently in prison on charges that he murdered his wife Kathleen Savio in 2004. The hearing was held to determine whether Stephen Peterson, 31, should be dismissed from the department. Prosecutors are accusing Stephen Peterson of deliberately hiding three of his father's firearms while state police searched Drew Peterson's home in October of 2007. "[Stephen Peterson] understands that a weapon could have been used in a crime against his young mother. He also understands …
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The Oak Brook police board is holding hearings on whether Drew Peterson's son should be removed from the force.
Two state police investigators cut Oak Brook police officer Stephen Peterson a break, and gave him more time to surrender guns owned by his father, accused murderer Drew Peterson. State police Sgt. Gary Lawson testified that in November 2007, he and another investigator paid a visit to Stephen Peterson's North Aurora home the day after they searched the Bolingbrook residence of his father, Drew Peterson. The state police were looking for some sign of Drew Peterson's missing fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, or clues to what happened to her. Two days before the search, Drew Peterson brought three guns to his son's home. Now, his son is at risk of losing his job as an Oak Brook police officer because of that. Oak Brook Police Chief Thomas Sheahan…
Officer Stephen Peterson publicly discusses the events surrounding Stacy Peterson's disappearance for the first time.
For the first time, the embattled Oak Brook cop, son of accused wife-killer Drew Peterson, publicly discussed his relationship with his father and the events surrounding the disappearance of his much younger stepmother, Stacy Peterson. Stephen Peterson told a hearing he harbored no suspicions at all about Stacy supposedly running off with another man and abandoning not only her two young children, but also the two boys she adopted after Peterson's previous wife, Kathleen Savio, mysteriously turned up drowned in a dry bathtub in March 2004. "He said his wife had left him," Stephen Peterson said during a disciplinary hearing convened by the Oak Brook Fire and Police Board Tuesday night. "He was upset and I was helping him out." That help …
Accused wife-killer Drew Peterson's son could lose his Oak Brook Police job for allegedly hiding a gun for his father
As the Oak Brook Police and Fire Board prepare for a Tuesday night hearing on whether to fire Oak Brook Police Officer Stephen Peterson, Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills residents are talking about the controversial case. "This is not just a nationally prominent story, it's right here where we live," said Clarendon Hills resident Luke Goss. Stephen Peterson is the son of former Bolingbrook police officer, Drew Peterson, who is in accused of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio, and allegedly having a role in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson. Stephen Peterson is in trouble with Oak Brook Police Chief Thomas Sheehan for stashing an illegal assault weapon for his father just before the state police executed a search …
Stephen Peterson will go before the Oak Brook Police and Fire Board Tuesday night—one day after his father's lawyer files a federal appeal to get Drew Peterson released from jail.
Attorneys for accused wife-killer Drew Peterson filed an appeal in federal court in hopes of having the former cop released from jail while he awaits trial. Joseph Lopez, one of the five lawyers defending Peterson against charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio, said he filed the appeal Monday. Lopez said he could not discuss contents of the appeal because it was filed under seal. Peterson allegedly drowned Savio in March 2004 but was not arrested until the disappearance of his next wife, Stacy Peterson, attracted attention to Savio's death. State police have said they suspect Drew Peterson might have killed Stacy Peterson as well, but have yet to bring charges against the former Bolingbrook cop. Stacy Peterson vanished in …
Dana Kristy
4:17 pm on Friday, December 10, 2010
Not fair. Stephen did not seek out the 'conflict of interest' that has landed in his lap, Can they perhaps give him a different job in the department till this 'blows over'? AT LEAST, if they do let him go, they ought to acknowledge that he's been extremely cooperative under very, very difficult circumstances. Wishing the best for ALL of Drew's innocent kids. more ›