A rough guide to making it through a weekend festival in one piece

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Thanks to (aka "By") Our Friends at FatReg's

A rough guide to making it through a weekend festival in one piece

What To Take: If you're new to festies, this might help. If you've been going for years then it may just refresh your drink-addled brain as to what you should remember to take with you...

Essentials• Tent - the crash tent is a BAD place to kip
• Ticket - crucial, unless you're going to try and buy one when you get there. Be wary of the touts who operate outside the entrance
• Money - to buy beer with, of course
• Clothes - obvious, but don't take many. You probably won't change them anyway
• Sleeping bag - if it's a warm year, you'll be sweating like a pig in your tent by six in the morning. If it's cold, you'll be glad of it.
• Bum bag - for money etc
• Mallet - some of those fields are as hard as concrete. A hot tip is to cut your tent pegs down to three inches before you go. They'll still hold your tent up and you can put them in without any hassle - then you can get drinking earlier
• Beer - The most essential thing after the tent, ticket and the money
• Stash - but remember, drugs are still illegal, even at festivals, and there are cops on-site, so be aware
• Loo roll - even though the bogs are way better now, this is a wise thing to take. Never lend your roll to anyone, though - it rarely comes back...
• More beer - you can't have too much beer
• Toothbrush and toothpaste
• Disposable camera - take crap and/or embarrassing pics of everyone you know, then make a web-site with them. Also useful for remembering what went on

Optionals• Torch - useful when you're pissed and trying to find stuff in your tent at night, mind
• Penknife - you never know when you might need one of the little gadgets
• Airbed - personally, I couldn't do without this any more, but I'm old. And fat
• Footpump - I tried to blow up the airbed without a pump the first year I took it. It just ain't possible
• Food (though personally, I'm too lazy to cook anymore)
• Can opener
• A stove or disposable barbecue if you take food
• Fags (to those who don't know...this was from our UK festie friends and this is aka Ciggs)
• Lighters


Dos and don'tsA few tips picked up over the years

DOs• Do get pissed and miss your favourite bands
• Do keep your money and any valuables on you at all times. A bum bag is a pretty safe way to do it, and you can carry fags etc in it. Keep it on when you sleep at night. And keep your boots safe under some clothes used as a pillow
• Do try to remember exactly where you camped. It's amazing the number of people stumbling round in the dark with no idea where their tents are. Tie something distinctive to your tent or put up a flagpole
• Avoid the articulated lorries selling beer just outside the main entrance and try the off licences on Caversham Road, Sainsbury's in Reading town centre or Waitrose in Caversham - you'll have further to carry the beer, but it's cheaper
• Do try to be at least on nodding terms with your neighbours - they'll usually look out for your camp site when you're not there. Return this favour
• Do be wary of the firewood sold on site - it's often been soaked in a lake for weeks before the festie and is a bugger to light. And it'll just make clouds of smoke
• Do light fires in the arena if there's anything to burn. Security love it! But don't burn plastic, unless, of course, you really want to piss off the people around you
• Do keep an eye out for the pigs - there aren't that many at Reading, but they are around, particularly in the camp sites
• Do remember to clean your teeth. Seriously, you may feel like crap, and stink like a farmyard, but having clean teeth feels sooo good
• Even if you can't be arsed cooking your own food, take something to snack on in the wee small hours
• Try to put as much of your campsite litter in a bag or burn it on the fire
• Try not to fall on people's tents when you're pissed
• Remember where the first aid and Samaritans tents are. Just in case
• Do buy us a pint if you see us. We'll be so grateful

DON'Ts• Don't camp near the Portaloos, obviously
• Don't camp near the hedges either - they don't smell too good in the morning
• Don't bother queueing for the showers - it's a waste of drinking time, and you're going to smell, anyway
• Don't take unnecessary crap like hairspray or butane powered styling tools (I remember goths crimping their hair at Reading in the late 80s. Fools)
• Don't take anything valuable at all
• Don't bother staying sober to see indie bands on the main stage - they'll sound crap anyway. It's a fact that pretty much only heavy metal sounds any good outdoors, and that's not always guaranteed
• Don't bother lugging palletts back from town - they don't let you in with 'em
• Don't tip the Portaloos over on the last night - it's not big and it's not clever, after all, you're going to need them on the Monday morning, too
• Don't pull down the strings of lights in the campsite - that's not big or clever, either
• Don't bother padlocking your tent, despite what people may tell you. It just says you might have something worth nicking, and thieves will think nothing of slashing your tent open to see what's inside
• Don't take any food that's likely to go off or melt if left in your tent. You'd be surprised how hot a tent gets during the day, and waking up in a tent the inside of which is completely smeared with rancid butter isn't a pleasant experience
• Don't bother trying to take photographs of bands on stage unless you have professional equipment. Your pics will almost certainly be crap.• Don't camp near those stalls that play ear-splitting techno all night, unless you don't need/like sleep
• Don't bother taking condoms - if you're sober or fragrant enough to pull at a festie, then you ain't trying hard enough. Of course, if your girlfriend/boyfriend is with you, that won't be a problem
• Don't buy drugs off strange people in the camp site after dark unless you can check the goods first. You'll probably get a little lump of soil wrapped in cling film. I've seen it happen

(http://www.fatreg.com/survival.html)

Dismissal of drug case tied to Schaumburg cops is a ‘second chance,’ Palatine man says

Palatine man says he was wrongly charged but still learned a big lesson (represented by Attorney Ms. Kathryn Ross (formerly Mrs. Kathryn Strobach)...

As I knew Russel "Russy" Disney prior to his arrest (through my lovely, equally eccentric as myself, sister) I can honestly say he is a good, bright young man with tons of potential for his life...which the incident described below almost ruined for him; however, due to everything that took place prior, during, and following his case, Russel truly has grown and matured as an individual and I believe he has made many sincere, positive changes for all the right reasons as he has been moving forward from all this... Read below to learn more...   

(February 20, 2013)

Russell Disney of Palatine stands at the Third Municipal District Courthouse in Rolling Meadows. Charges against Disney were dismissed due to the involvement of former Schaumburg undercover police officers now accused of drug conspiracy (see link at end to view photo).

A 23-year-old Palatine man, one of 18 people whose charges were dismissed because of involvement of three former undercover officers accused of drug conspiracy, says he is taking advantage of the second chance.
Russell Disney spent most of the last four months confined to his home and wearing an electronic monitor around his ankle while awaiting trial on charges of possession and delivery of a controlled substance, felonies that carry maximum sentences of three and 15 years respectively, although probation is available.

Earlier this month, Cook County prosecutors dismissed charges against Disney, citing involvement of one or more of former Schaumburg officers John Cichy, Matthew Hudak and Terrance O'Brien. The former officers were arrested in January in DuPage County on charges they skimmed drugs from police seizures and sold the product through a former informant.

Disney, who has had several brushes with Palatine police, says the experience taught him a lesson.
"Russell has been scared straight," said defense attorney Kathryn Ross. "He realizes he got a second chance and is taking the opportunity to, as he says, begin his adult life."

"It's been a crazy ride," said Disney, who acknowledges a felony conviction could have affected his ability to get a job or secure a college loan.

At the time of his arrest, Disney had been working at a packing company. He had also been hanging out with people whose criminal backgrounds were more extensive than he realized, said Ross during a joint interview with her client Tuesday at the Rolling Meadows courthouse.

Disney says those acquaintances introduced him to Cichy, who was working undercover in October 2012, according to Palatine police reports the Daily Herald obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Police reports allege Cichy and Disney met Oct. 16 in a car parked in a Palatine parking lot and that Cichy gave Disney $100 in exchange for 2 grams of cocaine. A transaction involving 0.7 gram of cocaine took place Oct. 11, police reports state.

Ross refutes the charges, claiming no video of the alleged transaction exists and that Cichy was the only witness. "The entire case was based on the testimony of the officer," Ross said.

The police report indicates three Palatine detectives, along with Hudak, had the parking lot under surveillance at the time.

Ross said Disney's acquaintances were not charged. Disney said he does not hang out with those people anymore.

"He learned his lesson: guilt by association," Ross said.

Cook County court clerk records show Disney pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery in 2007 and received one year of conditional discharge. He also pleaded guilty to an ordinance violation in 2010 and received supervision, court records show.

In both cases, Cook County prosecutors filed violations against Disney, which Ross said had to do with allegations of marijuana use.

Since his October 2012 arrest, Disney completed substance abuse treatment, which required that he pass regular drug tests.

Disney says he has no plans at this time to file a civil suit, as two others have done. Former defendants Diangelo Beasley and Kelley Altom have filed federal lawsuits against the former Schaumburg officers and the village of Schaumburg.

Disney "understands this is how the judicial system is supposed to work" and is happy it worked in his favor, Ross said.

"I'm just glad this is over with," Disney said.

Cichy, 30, and Hudak, 29, have been released on bail. O'Brien, 46, remains in custody. He will appear in court today, at which time prosecutors will seek to restore his original $750,000 bond. All three men have since resigned from the Schaumburg police force.

Attorneys for Cichy and O'Brien did not respond to requests for comment. Hudak defense attorney Thomas Glasgow declined to comment, citing his client's pending case.

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130220/news/702209943/

"19 former defendants go free in the wake of cops’ arrests"

 The following is the complete list of those whose cases were dismissed due to the misconduct of the police. Attorney Ms. Kathryn Ross (formerly Mrs. Kathryn Strobach) handled one of these cases for client Russel Disney. Read below...

(April 7, 2013)
In the wake of the January 2013 arrests in DuPage County of former Schaumburg undercover officers John Cichy, Matthew Hudak and Terrance O'Brien on charges of criminal drug conspiracy, Cook County prosecutors dismissed charges against 19 defendants whose pending cases involved one or more of the officers.
The case reports provide a glimpse of how the three officers conducted undercover work, intercepting drug deliveries at locations around the suburbs and recruiting new informants.

• John Abel, 22, of Schaumburg. Abel was on parole for a 2009 burglary when he was arrested on March 14, 2012, on charges he intended to deliver hydrocodone, cannabis and mushrooms. His lawyer declined to comment.

• Victor Aguilar-Abazan, 24, of Streamwood. He was picked up on Jan. 4, 2012, after police say he sold a total of 4.1 grams of cocaine to an informant on two separate occasions. In an interview with the Daily Herald, he denied selling drugs. On the day he was arrested at his home, police say they recovered 5.3 grams of cocaine and $1,687. Reports show police released him pending his cooperation in future investigations. He later declined and surrendered to police.

• Mario Alvarez-Romero, 33, of Schaumburg. Alvarez-Romero, known as "Yo," met an informant in a Hoffman Estates parking lot on May 23, 2012, to sell the informant an "eight ball" (3.5 grams of cocaine), police reports show. Police say they recovered 5.25 grams of cocaine. Released pending his cooperation, Alvarez-Romero was arrested at his home on June 8, 2012. A judge issued a bond forfeiture warrant for his arrest on Nov. 13, 2012, after he failed to show up in court. The judge quashed the warrant on Jan. 29, 2013, after prosecutors dismissed the charges against him. He could not be reached for comment.

• Diangelo Beasley, 25, of Chicago. Police reports say Beasley, known as "KP," took a Metra train to Arlington Heights on June 27, 2012, to sell 75 Ecstasy pills and a quarter-ounce of cocaine to an informant. Police reported Beasley, after his arrest, told them the cocaine was fake and that he was just trying to make some extra money and do his friend a favor by selling it. Police reported they recovered 67 Ecstasy pills. Beasley, who court records show was on probation at the time for a 2011 drug conviction, has convictions dating back to 2005 for possession of cannabis and possession of a controlled substance. Beasley's public defender declined to comment.

• Russell Disney, 23, of Palatine. Police reports say Cichy purchased 0.9 grams of cocaine from Disney in a parking lot at a Palatine liquor store on Oct. 11, 2012. Several days later, on Oct. 16, Cichy purchased 1.8 grams of cocaine from Disney, police reported. Since his October 2012 arrest, Disney has completed substance abuse treatment. His lawyer Kathryn Ross says he has been "scared straight," while he says he is taking advantage of his second chance.

• Wendell Galbreth, 37, of Elgin. Charged with delivery of cocaine and reckless driving, Galbreth told his customers to leave money in the glove boxes of their unlocked vehicles, which Galbreth would replace with a half-ounce of crack cocaine, police reports say. On Aug. 8, 2012, an informant made such an arrangement with Galbreth on the 1000 block of Schaumburg Road, according to police. Hudak reported he observed Galbreth place 14.45 grams of cocaine in the glove box, remove the money and attempt to drive off. Galbreth ignored orders to stop and drove across the sidewalk and parkway, nearly striking two officers, police reported. Galbreth surrendered to police several days later. His lawyer did not return calls for comment.

• Alex Garcia, 18, of Palatine. Police reports say Garcia sold cocaine to Cichy on Dec. 18 and Dec. 28, 2012, with the latter transaction for 3.33 grams. Hudak reported he purchased 26 grams of cocaine from Garcia for $1,050 on Jan. 4, 2013. Police arrested Garcia at that time, recovering a large butcher knife from his front pants pocket, police reports indicate. He could not be reached for comment.

• Marleny Gutierrez, 20, of Wheeling. Having obtained a search warrant for Gutierrez's home, officers spotted her leaving her home and getting into a car driven by another person on Jan. 11, 2013, records show. Police stopped the car and detained the driver, who they said had $1,600 in cash. After searching the home, the officers recovered 3.2 grams of cocaine and 16.8 grams of cannabis, police reports say. She could not be reached for comment.

• Caesar Hernandez, 22, of South Beloit, Ill., and Christopher R. Nelson, 28, of Beloit, Wis. Police reports say Hernandez, nicknamed "Monster," agreed to meet a confidential informant at the parking lot of a Schaumburg bar on Aug. 7, 2012, to sell 2.5 ounces of cocaine for $1,300. Officers converged on the car driven by Nelson and retrieved from Hernandez's front pocket a loaded .357 Ruger handgun that had been reported stolen from Janesville, Wis, reports say. Officers recovered a total of 44.08 grams of cocaine from the car, according the the police report. Hernandez, who was on parole for the manufacture and delivery of cocaine at the time, was charged with armed violence. Nelson was wanted on a warrant in Winnebago County at the time of his arrest. Illinois Department of Corrections records indicate Hernandez is in custody. Their lawyers did not respond to a call seeking comment.

• Christopher Koeller, 33, of Arlington Heights. On March 16, 2012, Cichy contacted Koeller, also known as "Lucky," to purchase Ecstasy, and arranged to meet him at a Woodfield Mall restaurant, reports indicate. He arrived in a car driven by another man, who, according to police reports, pushed Hudak in the chest and kicked O'Brien in the groin when Hudak tried to arrest him. Police reported they recovered 20 Ecstasy pills and 9.3 grams of cocaine. Koeller was charged with delivery of Ecstasy. The other man was charged with intent to deliver cocaine, resisting arrest and battery to a police officer. His lawyer said Koeller declined to be interviewed because he has another case pending.

• Raina Lewerenz, 19, of Franklin Park. Lewerenz had two Ecstasy pills at the time of her arrest in November 2012 on possession of a controlled substance charges, court records show. Her lawyer did not return calls seeking comment.

• Xavier Neodina, 30, of Streamwood. Officers obtained a search warrant for Neodina's home where, on Oct. 25, 2012, they recovered 119 grams of heroin and 68 grams of cocaine, report show. Police also recovered a loaded Smith & Wesson AR-15, a loaded .410 caliber handgun, a loaded .22 caliber Ruger and two other handguns, which Neodina's former lawyer Robert Irsuto said were registered to his client, who he said had a firearm owner's identification card. Neodina was charged with possession and intent to deliver cocaine and heroin and armed violence.

• Tommy Phillips, 27, of Elgin. Elgin police charged Phillips with intent to deliver a controlled substance in July 2011 after authorities say they found a bag containing 16.8 grams of cocaine in his car ashtray. Working on a tip from one of the former Schaumburg officers' confidential informants, Elgin police set up a sting that led to Phillips' arrest. Kane County prosecutors dropped the charges against Phillips in January. Phillips could not be reached for comment.

• Efren Rosales, 18, of Palatine. According to court records, police charged Rosales with delivering a total of 28 grams of cocaine on three separate occasions during October 2012. His lawyer did not respond to calls seeking comment.

• Richard Roh, 33, of Lincolnshire. Police charged Roh with possession of cannabis on March 1, 2012, after a confidential informant told them he was to meet with Roh at the Streets of Woodfield to purchase 1 pound of cannabis for $4,300. Reports say officers knew the make and model of the car Roh would be driving and watched as Roh committed a traffic violation for which the officer stopped him. The officer reported detecting a strong odor of cannabis from inside the vehicle. Searching Roh's vehicle, O'Brien found 474 grams of cannabis in a backpack, police reported. Roh was released without charges but later turned himself in after declining to serve as an informant. Roh was charged with possession of cannabis. His background includes probation for thefts in 1999 and 1998 and 18 months special probation for an amended forgery charge from 1997. His lawyer did not return calls seeking comment.

• David Russell. 36, of Elgin. An informant arranged to meet Russell in front of a home improvement store on Nov. 10, 2010, where the informant introduced Hudak, who purchased cocaine from Russell, police reports show. Police recovered a total of 42.5 grams of cocaine, they reported. Russell was released pending his cooperation, but officers subsequently were unable to find him. A judge issued a warrant for his arrest. He was also wanted on a warrant in Chicago. His lawyer reported he has not heard from Russell.

• Robert Thomas, 29, of Hanover Park. On Oct. 2 and 30, 2012, a Cichy and Hudak informant purchased a total of 2.4 grams of cocaine from Thomas at Thomas' home, records show. Police report that on Nov. 1, 2012, officers executed a search warrant and recovered 29 grams of cocaine and 4.4 grams of heroin. Thomas was charged with unlawful possession of heroin and cocaine with intent to deliver. Court records describe Thomas as an "admitted addict." He has another case pending on possession of cannabis. His lawyer said Thomas declined to be interviewed because he fears police reprisal.

• Kyle Wenk, 21, of Elburn. Wenk was charged with unlawful delivery of Ecstasy on May 16, 2012, at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg. Police report he sold 49 pills to an informant in exchange for $575. Court records show he was arrested on Sept. 26, 2012, in Kane County on a charge of delivery of cannabis. His criminal background includes convictions for possession of cannabis in 2011, DUI in 2010 and delivery of a controlled substance in 2009. His lawyer did not return calls seeking comment.
— Barbara Vitello, bvitello@dailyherald.com
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130407/news/704079911/?interstitial=1

In the wake of the January 2013 arrests in DuPage County of former Schaumburg undercover officers John Cichy, Matthew Hudak and Terrance O'Brien on charges of criminal drug conspiracy, Cook County prosecutors dismissed charges against 19 defendants whose pending cases involved one or more of the officers.
The case reports provide a glimpse of how the three officers conducted undercover work, intercepting drug deliveries at locations around the suburbs and recruiting new informants.

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• John Abel, 22, of Schaumburg. Abel was on parole for a 2009 burglary when he was arrested on March 14, 2012, on charges he intended to deliver hydrocodone, cannabis and mushrooms. His lawyer declined to comment.
• Victor Aguilar-Abazan, 24, of Streamwood. He was picked up on Jan. 4, 2012, after police say he sold a total of 4.1 grams of cocaine to an informant on two separate occasions. In an interview with the Daily Herald, he denied selling drugs. On the day he was arrested at his home, police say they recovered 5.3 grams of cocaine and $1,687. Reports show police released him pending his cooperation in future investigations. He later declined and surrendered to police.
• Mario Alvarez-Romero, 33, of Schaumburg. Alvarez-Romero, known as "Yo," met an informant in a Hoffman Estates parking lot on May 23, 2012, to sell the informant an "eight ball" (3.5 grams of cocaine), police reports show. Police say they recovered 5.25 grams of cocaine. Released pending his cooperation, Alvarez-Romero was arrested at his home on June 8, 2012. A judge issued a bond forfeiture warrant for his arrest on Nov. 13, 2012, after he failed to show up in court. The judge quashed the warrant on Jan. 29, 2013, after prosecutors dismissed the charges against him. He could not be reached for comment.
• Diangelo Beasley, 25, of Chicago. Police reports say Beasley, known as "KP," took a Metra train to Arlington Heights on June 27, 2012, to sell 75 Ecstasy pills and a quarter-ounce of cocaine to an informant. Police reported Beasley, after his arrest, told them the cocaine was fake and that he was just trying to make some extra money and do his friend a favor by selling it. Police reported they recovered 67 Ecstasy pills. Beasley, who court records show was on probation at the time for a 2011 drug conviction, has convictions dating back to 2005 for possession of cannabis and possession of a controlled substance. Beasley's public defender declined to comment.
• Russell Disney, 23, of Palatine. Police reports say Cichy purchased 0.9 grams of cocaine from Disney in a parking lot at a Palatine liquor store on Oct. 11, 2012. Several days later, on Oct. 16, Cichy purchased 1.8 grams of cocaine from Disney, police reported. Since his October 2012 arrest, Disney has completed substance abuse treatment. His lawyer Kathryn Ross says he has been "scared straight," while he says he is taking advantage of his second chance.
• Wendell Galbreth, 37, of Elgin. Charged with delivery of cocaine and reckless driving, Galbreth told his customers to leave money in the glove boxes of their unlocked vehicles, which Galbreth would replace with a half-ounce of crack cocaine, police reports say. On Aug. 8, 2012, an informant made such an arrangement with Galbreth on the 1000 block of Schaumburg Road, according to police. Hudak reported he observed Galbreth place 14.45 grams of cocaine in the glove box, remove the money and attempt to drive off. Galbreth ignored orders to stop and drove across the sidewalk and parkway, nearly striking two officers, police reported. Galbreth surrendered to police several days later. His lawyer did not return calls for comment.
• Alex Garcia, 18, of Palatine. Police reports say Garcia sold cocaine to Cichy on Dec. 18 and Dec. 28, 2012, with the latter transaction for 3.33 grams. Hudak reported he purchased 26 grams of cocaine from Garcia for $1,050 on Jan. 4, 2013. Police arrested Garcia at that time, recovering a large butcher knife from his front pants pocket, police reports indicate. He could not be reached for comment.
• Marleny Gutierrez, 20, of Wheeling. Having obtained a search warrant for Gutierrez's home, officers spotted her leaving her home and getting into a car driven by another person on Jan. 11, 2013, records show. Police stopped the car and detained the driver, who they said had $1,600 in cash. After searching the home, the officers recovered 3.2 grams of cocaine and 16.8 grams of cannabis, police reports say. She could not be reached for comment.
• Caesar Hernandez, 22, of South Beloit, Ill., and Christopher R. Nelson, 28, of Beloit, Wis. Police reports say Hernandez, nicknamed "Monster," agreed to meet a confidential informant at the parking lot of a Schaumburg bar on Aug. 7, 2012, to sell 2.5 ounces of cocaine for $1,300. Officers converged on the car driven by Nelson and retrieved from Hernandez's front pocket a loaded .357 Ruger handgun that had been reported stolen from Janesville, Wis, reports say. Officers recovered a total of 44.08 grams of cocaine from the car, according the the police report. Hernandez, who was on parole for the manufacture and delivery of cocaine at the time, was charged with armed violence. Nelson was wanted on a warrant in Winnebago County at the time of his arrest. Illinois Department of Corrections records indicate Hernandez is in custody. Their lawyers did not respond to a call seeking comment.
• Christopher Koeller, 33, of Arlington Heights. On March 16, 2012, Cichy contacted Koeller, also known as "Lucky," to purchase Ecstasy, and arranged to meet him at a Woodfield Mall restaurant, reports indicate. He arrived in a car driven by another man, who, according to police reports, pushed Hudak in the chest and kicked O'Brien in the groin when Hudak tried to arrest him. Police reported they recovered 20 Ecstasy pills and 9.3 grams of cocaine. Koeller was charged with delivery of Ecstasy. The other man was charged with intent to deliver cocaine, resisting arrest and battery to a police officer. His lawyer said Koeller declined to be interviewed because he has another case pending.
• Raina Lewerenz, 19, of Franklin Park. Lewerenz had two Ecstasy pills at the time of her arrest in November 2012 on possession of a controlled substance charges, court records show. Her lawyer did not return calls seeking comment.
• Xavier Neodina, 30, of Streamwood. Officers obtained a search warrant for Neodina's home where, on Oct. 25, 2012, they recovered 119 grams of heroin and 68 grams of cocaine, report show. Police also recovered a loaded Smith & Wesson AR-15, a loaded .410 caliber handgun, a loaded .22 caliber Ruger and two other handguns, which Neodina's former lawyer Robert Irsuto said were registered to his client, who he said had a firearm owner's identification card. Neodina was charged with possession and intent to deliver cocaine and heroin and armed violence.
• Tommy Phillips, 27, of Elgin. Elgin police charged Phillips with intent to deliver a controlled substance in July 2011 after authorities say they found a bag containing 16.8 grams of cocaine in his car ashtray. Working on a tip from one of the former Schaumburg officers' confidential informants, Elgin police set up a sting that led to Phillips' arrest. Kane County prosecutors dropped the charges against Phillips in January. Phillips could not be reached for comment.
• Efren Rosales, 18, of Palatine. According to court records, police charged Rosales with delivering a total of 28 grams of cocaine on three separate occasions during October 2012. His lawyer did not respond to calls seeking comment.
• Richard Roh, 33, of Lincolnshire. Police charged Roh with possession of cannabis on March 1, 2012, after a confidential informant told them he was to meet with Roh at the Streets of Woodfield to purchase 1 pound of cannabis for $4,300. Reports say officers knew the make and model of the car Roh would be driving and watched as Roh committed a traffic violation for which the officer stopped him. The officer reported detecting a strong odor of cannabis from inside the vehicle. Searching Roh's vehicle, O'Brien found 474 grams of cannabis in a backpack, police reported. Roh was released without charges but later turned himself in after declining to serve as an informant. Roh was charged with possession of cannabis. His background includes probation for thefts in 1999 and 1998 and 18 months special probation for an amended forgery charge from 1997. His lawyer did not return calls seeking comment.
• David Russell. 36, of Elgin. An informant arranged to meet Russell in front of a home improvement store on Nov. 10, 2010, where the informant introduced Hudak, who purchased cocaine from Russell, police reports show. Police recovered a total of 42.5 grams of cocaine, they reported. Russell was released pending his cooperation, but officers subsequently were unable to find him. A judge issued a warrant for his arrest. He was also wanted on a warrant in Chicago. His lawyer reported he has not heard from Russell.
• Robert Thomas, 29, of Hanover Park. On Oct. 2 and 30, 2012, a Cichy and Hudak informant purchased a total of 2.4 grams of cocaine from Thomas at Thomas' home, records show. Police report that on Nov. 1, 2012, officers executed a search warrant and recovered 29 grams of cocaine and 4.4 grams of heroin. Thomas was charged with unlawful possession of heroin and cocaine with intent to deliver. Court records describe Thomas as an "admitted addict." He has another case pending on possession of cannabis. His lawyer said Thomas declined to be interviewed because he fears police reprisal.
• Kyle Wenk, 21, of Elburn. Wenk was charged with unlawful delivery of Ecstasy on May 16, 2012, at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg. Police report he sold 49 pills to an informant in exchange for $575. Court records show he was arrested on Sept. 26, 2012, in Kane County on a charge of delivery of cannabis. His criminal background includes convictions for possession of cannabis in 2011, DUI in 2010 and delivery of a controlled substance in 2009. His lawyer did not return calls seeking comment.
— Barbara Vitello, bvitello@dailyherald.com