IDOC: Sheriff Failed to Provide Info on Alleged Murderer Released From Custody

CREST HILL, IL — The Cook County Sheriff’s Department failed to provide any information on an alleged killer who was freed from prison while he still had a murder charge hanging over him, said an Illinois Department of Corrections spokeswoman.

Garrett Glover, 29, was released with time served for an attempted armed robbery conviction the same day he was admitted to Stateville Correctional Center on Thursday. Now Glover is wanted for a 2012 murder he was charged with in 2015.

Cook County failed to provide the Illinois Department of Corrections with any paperwork or information about Glover’s murder case, said IDOC spokeswoman Nicole Wilson, who noted that corrections holds inmates convicted of crimes and not charged with them.

“The Illinois Department of Corrections did not receive the paperwork from Cook County that requires the Department to detain Mr. Glover,” Wilson said. “Without that paperwork, we cannot hold him. We do not have the authority to hold him. We would not hold him.”

Cara Smith, Sheriff Tom Dart's policy director, called this "absurd."

"They put him on parole. The last hands on him were IDOC," Smith said.

"What their position is, incredibly, is they didn't put a threshold (for parole supervision) on him?" Smith said.

Glover had been sentenced to a four-year, day-for-day sentence for the attempted armed robbery, Wilson said. Since his original custody date was Sept. 14, 2014, he was done with his sentence by the time he got to prison.

But Glover still had a murder charge in connection with the shooting death of a 25-year-old driver on the Dan Ryan Expressway and was supposed to go back to the Cook County jail.

Glover is on parole for his attempted armed robbery conviction. Corrections lists him as an absconder.

Smith said her department is working night and day to locate Glover.

"He's with someone, and someone knows where he is," she said.

And once Glover is tracked down, how he got out in the first place will be determined, Smith said.

"As soon as we find him, we're going to get to the bottom of where the communication failed," she said.

Garrett Glover | image via Illinois Department of Corrections