It was Rocio Palacios who first noticed the woman who appeared to need help.
It was 8 a.m. when she and her husband, Erasmo, dropped their 6-year-old daughter off at school and had picked up their 22-year-old daughter to go out for breakfast when they saw the woman waving her arms at 53rd Street and Kedzie Avenue last November.
The Palacioses, of Chicago, claim the woman approached their car, parked outside Manolo’s restaurant, leaned in to the passenger side where Rocio was sitting and asked Erasmo if he wanted oral sex for $20 or sex for $25.
The couple laughed, realizing this wasnt a woman in distress after all.
But within seconds, Chicago police swarmed the family car, hauling Erasmo Palacios out in handcuffs. He was charged with solicitation of a prostitute
His daughter, who had just run in to exchange her coffee for a hot chocolate, screamed, while his wife cried in fear.
Eight hours later, Palacios, who has no criminal record, was released from custody. And weeks later, charges against him were dropped.
Attorneys Lonny Ben Ogus and Joe Cavanaugh also want to know what happened to the family’s 1983 Mercedes. It was impounded that November day and, Palacios said, his wife and daughter were even threatened with arrest as they tried to stop police from taking it, as they were left stranded that morning.
The city wants more than $4,700 in towing and storage fees if he wants the car back.
Yea heard about this one earlier in the week. The guy was just lucky his wife was in the car. Otherwise he would be wrongfully acused, divorced AND out of a car with no recourse.
2. “The guy was just lucky his wife was in the car. “
Yeah, and you have to wonder how many innocent men were not that lucky.
Let’s see, police entrapment, confiscation of private property, hiding evidence…..
I’ve been hearing about this stuff for at least 15 years now. Nobody will do anything about it because they don’t believe it until it happens to them or someone they know. Welcome to the Brave New World.
At least in a Minnesota public toilet, all they do is arrest you!
Chicago? I’m surprised the cops didn’t ask for a bribe.
Y’know – I can’t help but wonder about the deafening silence from our elected officals – D or R – regarding this declaration of war on both citizens and the Constitution.
OOPS. I forgot. They ‘re the scum-sucking smutbuckets who wrote these fucking laws! :O
“The city wants more than $4,700 in towing and storage fees if he wants the car back.”
wow
I am waiting for the post that says that these cops are the bad apples that give cops a bad name. The reason most people don’t like cops is because they are ALL power tripping dicks to one degree or another. Bah!
Wow man. I guess there is no explanation for crap like this. Won’t someone ask the Mayor why the city won’t give him back the car?
#7 – The reason most people don’t like cops is because they are ALL power tripping dicks to one degree or another. Bah!
I am from a cop family and know many many cops and have ridden with cops and worked with cops and I can say with absolutely certainty that they are NOT ALL power tripping dicks to one degree or another.
Just most of them 🙂
Hmmm. Something seems a little fishy here. I’ve been approached by prostitutes (or maybe they were undercover cops) in Chicago, NY, Boston, LA, and elsewhere, and it’s usually not at 8 in the morning, and NEVER when my wife was in the car with me. WTF is up with that?!?
If this is as reported though, the guy should sue for a new car, the dismissal of the cops, and about $10,000,000 in punitive damages. And sure as shit he’s right, if the missus hadn’t been with him, he would have been totally hosed.
Remember the good old days when police entrapment, extortion and all those other fun things were the norm in Northwestern Mexico? Guess that’s another thing imported from our neighbor to the South.
The Cowboy Cops obviously wanted a ’83 Mercedes.
#6,
Also I bet they want it cash or cashiers check. No personal checks or credit cards allowed!
The car is probably being used as a bait car now…
Welcome to new, improved for profit police force of the future. Now with tanks and helicopter gunships!
This is NOT entrapment. This is false arrest and actionable fraud.
So, the guy solicited a prostitute WITH his wife in the car? Why wasn’t she arrested for the claimed three-way?
Something doens’t add up===but yes, so outrageous, it can’t be believed until it happens to me.
Could the sky be falling????
All americans need to realize that the politicians call for more police, but the police dont want to go to the dangerous areas–they are just waiting for their pensions. They will go to safe areas and give safe people like you a ticket for not wearing a seat belt.
It seems the only people who think cops are the good guys are those that haven’t yet had a run-in with them. And you don’t have to be a drug dealer or thug to run afoul of law enforcement. I use to complain about it to a co-worker that thought I was nuts, until he had to bail his wife (a school teacher) of out jail for running a red light.
And then there is another co-worker whose son is a cop. He was telling us a “humorous” story about how his son would watch the proceedings in traffic court, then wait outside for those who just had their license suspended. This prick saw nothing wrong with arresting people and impounding their vehicles as they tried to drive away after court.
“This prick saw nothing wrong with arresting people and impounding their vehicles as they tried to drive away after court.”
Soooo….
You require a license to drive a car…
Your license gets revoked/suspended..
You drive home…
That is right because?
Being an asshole isn’t illegal, but breaking the law is 😛
(bit like that guy who got arrested for not letting the store manager look in his bags)
Actually, who has the bigger most brassy balls?
The one waiting and arresting people twice for commiting a crime
OR
The one that commits a crime knowingly just after having been convicted of a crime?
Yes, because the law says so, shitting on people is OK.
You are the same kind of sociopath – and scumbag – as Smith mentioned. A total absence of conscience, and a rigid, authoritarian worship of the law, used to rationalize that sociopathy – these pathological character deficits indicate that you could indeed have a bright future in police work.
After all, society can never have too many vicious goosestepping automatons.
Sue the bastards.
These cops enjoy hurting people for fun, they are the tortured rats whey they were kids. The pigs have guns and got into power just for the purpose of controlling others.
But most of all these cops HATE the constitution.
Chicago Police officers are a bunch of degenerated baboons. None of those morons actually know the law. Wow, I feel so safe living in Chicago… Oh, and I bet the car can be found on the huge Western Ave. car dump.