Dolton, Ill. (ECWd) –
Dolton’s former Assistant Police Chief Lewis Lacey is no longer listed as a certified police officer in the ILETSB officer certification database.
Lacey is the officer who was indicted by a federal grand jury on 9 counts related to bankruptcy fraud.
In that case, after pleading not guilty, the Federal Judge’s condition of bail ordered him to surrender all firearms (including service firearm) and his FOID card.
He returned to work the next day, even though he was prohibited from entering the building, and brought Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard, after threatening the police department a couple days prior of insubordination. It is our understanding that Dolton police officers went to Lacey’s home to seize the firearms, including his police firearm.
Henyard insists she has appointed him as deputy police chief as a civilian, and the police department issued a Vote of No Confidence a few days ago.
The village then notified the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board (ILETSB) that Lacey was terminated (by board vote in a public meeting) as a police officer in Dolton. Around a week later, the ILETSB database finally indicates that Lewis Lacy was terminated from the Village of Dolton on August 14, 2024, and his certification as a law enforcement officer is “inactive.”
Being inactive, he cannot act as a law enforcement officer anywhere, and it is unclear if he is still driving the village’s unmarked police vehicle, or if he has finally turned it in to the village.
In June 2024, a lawsuit was filed alleging falsification of test scores for Sergeant and unlawful promotions to SGT.
5 Comments
H2OGuy
Posted at 08:54h, 25 AugustAccording to the Law Officer certification record he’s over 100 years old, since was a Tinley Park police officer from 1901 – 2010
Paul Robertz
Posted at 17:05h, 25 AugustWhich law enforcement agency has the courage to arrest Lewis Lacey for impersonating a police officer? How can the Village of Dolton take back their Dodge Durango police cruiser that Lacey is still driving?
Devora Smart
Posted at 09:05h, 26 August👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 LACEY was as corrupt as the stupidmayor, now could the village please investigate and decertify the other Sargeants and commissioner who did not pass the test? Especially those female cops that put out that poor deputy clerk from the townhall.. that stupidmayor was very jealous of that young lady!!
Michael Carson
Posted at 12:07h, 27 AugustHope Dalton Gets It Together!
DERRICK CHARLES
Posted at 04:51h, 31 AugustApparently everybody in Illinois has forgotten about what has happened to Sonya Massey , so you may ask what’s the correlation between Sonia Massey’s murder, and Dalton police chief losing his certification, if you look at it for what it is, if this had been done to Sean Grayson, Sonya Massey would not have been murdered by him, because he would not have had the ability to do so and would not have been there for that call, the long and the short of it they can do this to a black police chief quickly, but they can’t do it to a white cop with a documented history of things that should have flagged him from being a police officer.