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Darien City Council candidate John Laratta maintains a residence in an eight-story condominium complex in a Tampa suburb along the Gulf of Mexico, according to government records. (Google Maps)
This is the view from the condominium complex where Darien City Council candidate John Laratta maintains a residence in Redington Beach, Fla., according to government records. (Google Maps)
DARIEN, IL Earlier this month, Darien City Council candidate John Laratta wrote in a Patch candidate questionnaire that he had retired to Florida.
Candidates for municipal office must live in the cities they seek to represent. Laratta s statement prompted Patch to give a closer look at whether he lives in Darien or Florida.
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Darien City Council candidate John Laratta says he did not fire shots on Dec. 29, 2019. In an interview with police, his wife says he did. (Shutterstock)
DARIEN, IL Darien City Council candidate John Laratta maintains he did not fire a gun the night that Darien police arrested him.
But Darien Patch has obtained the audio of the police s interview with Laratta s wife, Terry Laratta, who indicates her husband fired shots late the night of Dec. 29, 2019. They were at their town home in the 8000 block of Barrymore Drive.
In a nine-minute interview with police the next morning, Terry Laratta said she was in her loft speaking on the phone with her niece from California when she heard a gunshot.
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John Laratta, who is facing Ward 5 incumbent Mary Sullivan in the April 6 election, is under criminal investigation in connection with a 2019 shooting, police records indicate. (Shutterstock)
DARIEN, IL Darien police are continuing to investigate a 2019 shooting in which a Darien City Council candidate is a suspect, records show.
Darien Patch filed a public records request for the police report and the complaint. The police department did not release the report, saying doing so would interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation.
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According to a Darien police news release at the time, officers responded to a call of possible shots fired in the 8000 block of Barrymore Drive late the night of Dec. 29, 2019.