“The board was not aware until this morning,” Island Lake board member Connie Mascillino said.<\/p>\n
Mascillino said the situation was unusual and said she hopes the entire board will have a chance to address the matter.<\/p>\n
“We’ve never had any thing like this happen before,” she said.<\/p>\n
As mayor, Herrmann has the authority to remove the chief from duty, said village attorney Scott Puma. He declined to comment on the reasons for Sciarrone’s leave because it was a personnel matter.<\/p>\n
Board member Don Verciglio said he also was unaware of the reasons for Sciarrone’s leave. He said the village mayor appoints the police chief.<\/p>\n
Sciarrone, who is paid $85,738 a year plus benefits, remains on the payroll, said Finance Director John Little.<\/p>\n
Detective Matt du Chemin has been put in charge of the day-to-day operations of the department, Little said. Du Chemin could not be reached for comment Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
This is not the first time Herrmann has wielded her authority over the department.<\/p>\n
On Jan. 1, she placed a part-time police officer on administrative leave. That officer has not been paid or returned to work, Little said.<\/p>\n
The Island Lake police department has not been insulated from the village board’s political machinations in the past, either.<\/p>\n
Former Police Chief John Fellmann, a 31-year veteran of the Arlington Heights Police Department who wanted to finish out his career in Island Lake, resigned after disagreements with the board.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, a stalemate on the board nearly led to the village not being able to pay its monthly bills. However, that situation has since been resolved and the bills paid, Little said.<\/p>\n
By Brett Rowland<\/p>\n
Read the original article from the Northwest Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n ISLAND LAKE — The police chief in Island Lake is on paid administrative leave. Chief Anthony Sciarrone had been leading the 14-officer department for almost a year. Mayor Debbie Herrmann notified village board members in an e-mail Monday morning that she put Sciarrone on leave Friday, but did not indicate why. “The board was not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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