CHICAGO — A former Chicago police officer has been handed a year-long federal prison sentence for sexually assaulting a victim while on duty in 2019. 65-year-old James Sajdak, a Chicago resident, pleaded guilty in 2023 to one count of deprivation of civil rights, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. In a plea agreement, Sajdak admitted […]
A former Chicago police sergeant on Monday pleaded guilty to a federal charge alleging he kidnapped and sexually abused someone in a squad car on the West Side in 2019.
James B. Sajdak, 65, faces up to a year in federal prison under a misdemeanor civil rights count. Federal prosecutors accused him of forcing a woman into his squad car to perform a sex act on him.
The leader of a Northwest Side drug trafficking organization that sold heroin and fentanyl-laced drugs was sentenced to twelve and a half years in federal prison.