Sep 9, 2008 2:39 pm US/Central
Cop Charged With Framing Friend's Wife
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) ―
Bond was set at $250,000 Tuesday for a Chicago police officer accused of helping frame a northwest suburban man's estranged wife for drug possession.
Officer Slowamir Plewa, who worked in the Grand Central District, and his friend Bogdan Mazur both appeared in bond court Tuesday before Cook County Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr., who ordered each held on $250,000.
Plewa is charged with official misconduct, perjury, obstructing justice, unlawful restraint and false reporting. Mazur is charged with conspiracy to commit possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, conspiracy to commit possession of cannabis with intent to deliver, conspiracy to commit aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, obstructing justice and false reporting.
On April 1, 2007, Mazur, 48, of 959 Wedgewood, Crystal Lake, was parked in a parking garage at Belmont and Central with his two young children when he placed a call to his estranged wife, according to court documents. He told her the car would not start and he would need her to come to the garage to pick up their kids.
Before she drove to the parking deck in a Toyota Highlander she and Mazur owned, a bag containing a .22 caliber blue steel pistol, white powder cocaine and marijuana was placed inside the SUV's spare tire compartment, prosecutors claim in the documents.
When she arrived, Plewa stopped her vehicle and asked for permission to search it. She gave permission, a search was conducted and the officers recovered the plastic bag containing the drugs and gun, court records show.
Testing by the Illinois State Police revealed there was 44.5 grams of cocaine and 62 grams of cannabis in the vehicle.
The woman was arrested, processed and held in custody on narcotics and weapons charges, the documents said. The documents stated that Plewa lied and said an anonymous individual "walked in to the police station and provided information that led to the stop and arrest of the victim."
He allegedly gave this false information to police, a grand jury and during the victim's criminal trial, where she was found not guilty, prosecutors said in the documents.
The documents said Mazur made the call to Plewa from the garage in front of other police officers.
Mazur told police after the arrest he "became increasingly upset with (the) victim, and some of her financial spending choices and disagreed with some of her parenting decisions."
He also said he and a co-conspirator, unnamed in Tuesday's court proceedings, agreed to equally split proceeds from a corporation owned by Mazur and his wife after she was arrested and presumably convicted and sent to prison.
The uncharged co-conspirator also was to help Mazur with his immigration problems. Mazur is a Polish citizen living in the United States illegally, the documents said.
Plewa and Mazur were introduced by a mutual friend in early 2007. Phone records showed numerous contacts prior to the April 1, 2007, arrest, the documents said.
The document said Plewa had been a Chicago police officer for nearly seven years and, until last month, was assigned to the Grand Central District on hte Northwest Side.
Police did not immediately respond to calls and e-mails seeking comment on the charges and Plewa's current status with the department.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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