Friday, March 1, 2013

Cops: Career Criminal Keeps Eluding Justice

A serial criminal who police say should never have bonded out jail did so, and he now stands accused of stealing a van with three little boys inside. In the past few years police say Sandy Ely, nicknamed Rump Rump, has managed to bond out on not one but eight charges ranging from residential burglary to robbery in Cook County, Ill., and Lake County, Ind.

"I think it’s horrendous. I think it’s a tremendous black eye to the criminal justice system," said Capt. Deborah Simental of the Illinois State Police.

Mike Kickert said his home installed security cameras caught Ely in the home of his mother-in-law back in June 2011. Police say Ely and an accomplice posed as power company workers. The video showed the men rifling through a strong box, a purse, a jewelry container and wiping finger prints on the way out the front door.

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