Disgraced Fox Lake Suicide Super Cop Tried Putting Gang Hit on Official, Stashed Coke in Desk

Disgraced Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph “G.I. Joe” Gliniewicz didn’t just ponder dumping the village manager in the Volo Bog — he tried reaching out to a gang leader to do his dirty work for him.

“He sent a text message to a third party and referenced a nickname of a high-ranking gang member,” said Detective Christopher Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff’s Department.

This led to a telephone conversation during which Gliniewicz, 52, asked to be put in touch with the motorcycle gang leader in order to put a hit on Fox Lake Village Manager Anne Marrin, Covelli said.

Covelli said investigators spoke with both the “third party” and the motorcycle gang leader. The gang leader “denied ever having a conversation with anybody about putting a hit on anyone,” he said.

On Wednesday, the commander of the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force confirmed what nearly everyone suspected soon after Gliniewicz was found shot to death Sept. 1 — that the once-beloved cop took his own life in a suicide elaborately staged to look like a murder.

The commander, George Filenko, told how Gliniewicz feared that Marrin was going learn of his years of stealing from the police department’s Explorer Scouts program, and that the crooked cop was growing increasingly desperate.

“She hates me and I’ve never said more than 3 sentences to her the year shes been here … hates the explorer program and is crawling up my ass and the program, chief wont sign off to move it to american legion and if she gets ahold of the old checking account, im pretty well f***ed,” Gliniewicz said in a text message.

When the person he was texting expressed hope that Marrin would get arrested for driving under the influence, Gliniewicz wrote, “She does, but not around here and no one knows where. Trust me ive thougit through MANY SCENARIOS from planting things to the volo bog!!!”

On Thursday, Covelli told not only of the effort to set up a gang hit on Marrin, but also of the cocaine found in Gliniewicz’s desk after the police lieutenant’s death. Covelli said it was a small amount of coke.

Filenko said others are under investigation for looting the Explorer Scout’s accounts. Gliniewicz alone had been doing it for seven years, he said, and embezzled “five figures” worth of funds. Gliniewicz, whose salary in 2015 was $96,345.60, spent the stolen money on travel expenses, mortgage payments, a gym membership, adult websites and loans to his friends, Filenko said.

Covelli decline to confirm or deny reports that Gliniewicz’s widow, Melodie, and son D.J. are targets of the investigation.