Court Supervision: Former Fire Chief Has Constant Case of the Blues

When they let former Chicago Ridge Deputy Fire Chief Gary Swiercz out of jail, he wasn't allowed to return to the Tinley Park condo where he allegedly tried to rape and kill a neighbor.

Since the woman still lives in his building, Swiercz moved into his parents' home in Worth. But that hasn't worked out so well.

The high-priority electronic monitoring the county put Swiercz on requires the cops to make an in-person visit to the house once during each eight hour shift, and the repeated visits are wearing on Swiercz's elderly parents, Barbara and Stan.

Swiercz's parents were they went to court and asked a judge to cut out the house checks between midnight and 8 a.m.

Cook County Judge John Joseph Hynes denied the request, pointing out that the police are following the rules for a high priority home-confinement case.

So things didn't work out so well for Swiercz last week, but he wasn't the only in court. Let's take a look at some other cases:

• Former Joliet resident and Ponzi-schemer James Brandolino got eight years and 11 months in federal prison.
• The attorneys for a teen charged with murdering a Palos Township couple received medical files and photo evidence.
• The lawyer for one of four young people charged with a grisly double murder argued with an attorney representing an area newspaper over whether the case file should be unsealed.
• Will County Board Republican Chairman Jim Moustis' grandson Nicholas Moustis was arrested for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from his job at a wholesale cigarette distributor.
• A registered sex offender tried but failed to get a judge to lower his $1 million bond for a new sex offense.
• A former music teacher from Southwest Chicago Christian High School in Palos Heights pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing a pair of students in 2009.
• One of those four young people from the grisly double murder with the sealed case file turned out to be the father of a 1-year-old girl. The girl's mother petitioned to establish Adam Landerman's paternity three months before he was charged with the murders.

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