He was once one of the state's top cops when it comes to catching drunk drivers. Now, he says, he's being targeted by police because he's helping lawyers defend DUI's.
Until retiring earlier this year, Bill Pelarenos was part of the Cook County Sheriff's Police DUI Task Force and made over 900 DUI arrests during a 30-year police career.
Soon after retirement, Pelarenos began holding paid seminars to teach police officers what he had learned.
"It is the procedure for proper DUI enforcement. The standard field sobriety test, the arrest, the breathalyzer. Whatever from A to Z," Pelarenos said.
But after some interest from defense attorneys, Pelarenos began teaching the same seminar to lawyers who handle DUI cases, like Sammy Azhari.
"I wanted to learn what Mr. Pelarenos had to say about his years of experience in the field and give me some opportunities to defend my clients a little better in court," Azhari said.
Pelarenos says that's when he started getting harassed by Cook County State's Attorney investigators serving him with subpoenas to appear in court on old cases he had little to do with.
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