Beltran allegedly covered up the incident by approving a false dive report written by a second police officer, Michael Michalik. The two allegedly let the diver use police sonar equipment.
In the charging document, Police Supt. David Brown recommended Beltran and Michalik be fired from the department. The Police Board is set to hear the charges May 18.
Michalik has resigned from the department and Beltran has been suspended without pay, police spokesman Anthony Spicuzza said.
Yohei Yamada in Lake Michigan at Burnham Harbor in 2019.
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Yamada, the diver, gained attention last July when he recovered Rizzo’s wedding ring that slipped off his finger into Belmont Harbor. “He’s lost a lot of weight recently and had just washed his hands and was kind of shaking it and it just flew off,” Yamada told the Chicago Sun-Times then.
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One of two people suspected of shooting and killing seven-year-old
Jaslyn Adams in a McDonald’s drive-thru was shot by Chicago Police after a highway car chase.
The unidentified man was shot by officers on the Eisenhower Expressway yesterday afternoon after he reportedly tried to carjack someone.
Jaslyn Adams (above) and her dad were struck by bullets fired by an unidentified suspect. Adams, 7, and was pronounced dead at an area hospital. (5 Chicago)
According to
The Chicago Sun-Times, police shot the suspect multiple times shortly after 4 p.m. on Thursday when they attempted to prevent him from getting on the expressway. His car crashed into the shoulder, and he attempted to carjack another vehicle with a family inside.
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Former Interim Chicago Police Supt. Charlie Beck attempted to clear the air with the city’s current top cop Friday after David Brown said his predecessor’s de-centralized crime strategy “wasn’t working” and said Beck didn’t take police reform seriously enough.
In an interview with the Sun-Times, Beck pushed back on Brown’s claims and criticized his decision to abandon Beck’s attempts to put more dedicated officers in the community and instead create roving citywide teams of cops to fight crime.
Beck explained the “community-oriented style” he embraced pushes resources “as close as possible” to the areas they serve to foster relationships between citizens and police and build “healthy neighborhoods” that “don’t need the police so much because they have standards.”