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The first car he stole at age 13, the drug dealer he shot, the $25,000 worth of baby formula he stole to pay for his heroin addiction, the years he spent behind bars all of that is in the past for 27-year-old Zion native Gary Ladehoff.
That s because of the help he got from two suburban police officers, a Hainesville couple and his older sister, says Ladehoff, who tells his remarkable story in WTTW s ambitious digital series, Firsthand: Living in Poverty, which becomes available Monday at WTTW.com/firsthand.
It s crazy. I would have never thought I d be able to call these guys (the officers) my friends, says Ladehoff, who now lives in McHenry with his 3-year-old daughter, MiaBella, and his girlfriend, and says he is dedicated to being a good father.