McHenry County Blog

McHenry County Blog has obtained the statements that Grafton Township Supervisor Linda Moore and Grafton Township Administrator Pam Fender made to the Huntley Police Department after Village Trustee Fender called the police Tuesday morning about twenty minutes after the incident described below.  (Click to enlarge.)

Meanwhile, Keely Cat is taking the Northwest Herald approach to the adding of about $50,000 worth of administrative cost to the delivery of Grafton Township services.

Keely ignoring what's going on in Grafton Township.

Linda Moore

Pam Fender

It’s said that the best defense is a good offense.

And that’s what Huntley Village Trustee Pam Fender, newly hired to, in effect, supplant elected Grafton Township Supervisor Linda Moore, did when she called the Huntley Police after apparently trying to force her way into Moore’s office.

At 8:30 AM, at the start of her second week as Grafton Township Administrator, Fender precipitated a confrontation with the elected Township Supervisor she was hired by the four township trustees to replace.

That’s when Pam Fender tried to force her way into Linda Moore’s office.

Anybody over 30 knows that something bad is going to happen when you try to force your way into someone’s private office.

Moore told her not to come in the office, but Fender didn’t heed the instruction. This led to Moore’s defending her territory.

At 8:52, some twenty minutes, later Fender had decided to call the police. One can only wonder to whom she talked in the intervening time.

You can read the police report below for details below.  I note with amusement that the second sentence of the narrative says,

“…the victim had been struck by her supervisor…”

One thing is for certain.  Pam Fender does not consider Linda Moore “her supervisor.”

The narrative of the Huntley Police Department's report 10-0289 can be found in three parts above. You can enlarge each section by cllicking on the image.

That’s what it looks like.

Friday people were out spraying pavement demarcations showing where picketers can stand on Monday.

At the Saturday announcement of the electronic wrist radio tracking system to folks who might wander from home at Good Shepherd’s Intermediate Care facility across from the Pingree Road Metra Station, Huntley Police Chief John Perkins told me that the school board will allow parking of picketers’ cars on school property. Traffic safety seems to be the concern.

I haven’t found anyone who doesn’t think the teachers will carry out their threat to strike, thereby physically demonstrating their rejection the 5.43% average salary hike.

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These picketers were seen before a Huntley School Board meeting August 21, 2008.

That’s what it looks like.

Friday people were out spraying pavement demarcations showing where picketers can stand on Monday.

At the Saturday announcement of the electronic wrist radio tracking system to folks who might wander from home at Good Shepherd’s Intermediate Care facility across from the Pingree Road Metra Station, Huntley Police Chief John Perkins told me that the school board will allow parking of picketers’ cars on school property. Traffic safety seems to be the concern.

I haven’t found anyone who doesn’t think the teachers will carry out their threat to strike, thereby physically demonstrating their rejection the 5.43% average salary hike.

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These picketers were seen before a Huntley School Board meeting August 21, 2008.

A couple of teenage boys were arrested late last week for robbing the Castle Bank in Huntley on March 10th.

Seems a bit strange that they would be from Hinkley, which is straight down Route 47 and west on Route 30 in DeKalb County south of the City of DeKalb.

It’s a long way to go to rob a bank.

About 30 miles.

Matthew Reno is identified as 18 and Justin Fasel as 17 by Daily Herald reporter Lee Filas.

They are being held in McHenry County Jail unable to raise the $40,000 apiece it would take to meet the $400,000 bail that has been set.

The same two are charged with trying to rob the First Midwest Bank in Union on March 23rd.

“The big break came, (Huntley Police Chief John Perkins) said, when FBI agents in Chicago received a tip and forwarded it to Huntley officers.”

The article adds, “

He would not disclose what the tip was that led to the arrests.”

I don’t know if these two would fit any of the categories listed below by Stop Prisoner Rape, but if they do and are convicted, they are in for a world of hurt in the Illinois Department of Corrections…when preventing rape in prison is not a high priority…if one at all:

“inmates who are

• small,
• young,
• non-violent,
• mentally ill,
• gay or
• transgender,
• in prison for the first time, and/or
• lacking a gang affiliation

are particularly vulnerable to being abused while incarcerated. Detainees who have been sexually assaulted in the past are also identified as likely victims of further abuse.”

That’s pretty much what I concluded when I served on the Illinois House Prison Reform Committee.

A couple of teenage boys were arrested late last week for robbing the Castle Bank in Huntley on March 10th.

Seems a bit strange that they would be from Hinkley, which is straight down Route 47 and west on Route 30 in DeKalb County south of the City of DeKalb.

It’s a long way to go to rob a bank.

About 30 miles.

Matthew Reno is identified as 18 and Justin Fasel as 17 by Daily Herald reporter Lee Filas.

They are being held in McHenry County Jail unable to raise the $40,000 apiece it would take to meet the $400,000 bail that has been set.

The same two are charged with trying to rob the First Midwest Bank in Union on March 23rd.

“The big break came, (Huntley Police Chief John Perkins) said, when FBI agents in Chicago received a tip and forwarded it to Huntley officers.”

The article adds, “

He would not disclose what the tip was that led to the arrests.”

I don’t know if these two would fit any of the categories listed below by Stop Prisoner Rape, but if they do and are convicted, they are in for a world of hurt in the Illinois Department of Corrections…when preventing rape in prison is not a high priority…if one at all:

“inmates who are

• small,
• young,
• non-violent,
• mentally ill,
• gay or
• transgender,
• in prison for the first time, and/or
• lacking a gang affiliation

are particularly vulnerable to being abused while incarcerated. Detainees who have been sexually assaulted in the past are also identified as likely victims of further abuse.”

That’s pretty much what I concluded when I served on the Illinois House Prison Reform Committee.