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A Schaumburg police officer has been suspended with pay for allegedly keeping a gun that had been turned in to the department, and the same officer also faces scrutiny for a case involving heroin that allegedly went missing from a crime scene, police said.
On April 23, two people came to the Schaumburg police station to turn in a .22-caliber revolver, according to a department news release. The officer, whom the department did not name, was on front-desk duty, and asked the two to step outside, where he offered to buy the gun. The two declined and said they wanted the gun to be disposed, the news release said.
The officer then accepted the weapon without creating any report or record of the transaction, and kept it illegally in his own possession, according to the release. Three days later, one of the people spoke with Interim Police Chief Ken Douche to say she was uncomfortable about what happened.
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