POLICE SERGEANT FIRED FOR ALLEGEDLY REFUSING TO AID DRUG CASE

A Chicago Police sergeant has been fired in a 2001 drug case and a
lieutenant is facing dismissal in a separate telephone harassment case.

Sgt. Kevin Morrison failed to cooperate with a
criminal investigation into a teacher's allegations that she
was arrested after her ex-husband arranged to have drugs planted in
her car, the Police Board found. The board also found Morrison
guilty of refusing to identify the informant he says provided a tip
about the drugs.

Five board members voted to fire Morrison, two members called for a
lesser punishment and one found him not guilty of the administrative charges.

Morrison's lawyer Joseph Roddy said his client did nothing wrong.

"Obviously if they felt he didn't cooperate, why didn't they do
something right away in '01 or '02 or '03? And why did they promote
him to sergeant?" Roddy said.

Guilty Of Phone Harassment

Meanwhile, Police Supt. Phil Cline has asked the board to fire Lt.
Richard Guerrero -- once a high-ranking department member -- for
harassing a woman April 19 after taking her cell phone number from a
police report she filed. On Nov. 4, Guerrero was found guilty of
misdemeanor telephone harassment and sentenced to a year of court
supervision, records show.

The department's Internal Affairs Division had previously
investigated Guerrero over allegations of "inappropriate contact"
with his ex-wife. He once was deputy chief of patrol in the Belmont Area.

Morrison has not been charged with criminal wrongdoing in his case.
He had provided officers with a tip that a Chicago Public Schools
teacher would be driving a silver 2001 Chrysler Sebring convertible
containing a large quantity of Ecstasy pills and she would make a
delivery after school. Andrea Sullivan was arrested on June 1, 2001,
outside Beaubien School on the Northwest Side.

Officers found 250 Ecstasy pills and 43 grams of cocaine in
Sullivan's car. At the time, she told the officers her ex-husband
was responsible for planting the drugs. The officers later asked
Morrison for the identity of his informant, but Morrison would not
give them a name, according to the police department.

Prosecutors dropped charges against Sullivan about a month after her
arrest. They have said they did not have enough evidence to file
criminal charges against anyone for planting drugs in the car.

Sullivan filed a lawsuit claiming ex-husband William Sullivan
conspired with his brother Stuart Sullivan and friend John Apel to
plant the drugs as part of the couple's child custody dispute. She
later dropped the case.

Wouldn't ID Tipster

In testimony before the Police Board, Morrison said he did not know
the Sullivans, but phone records showed he received a call on his
cell phone from Stuart Sullivan on June 1, 2001, according to a city
attorney. William Sullivan invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify.

Andrea Sullivan has remarried and goes by Andrea Allegretti. Her
husband, Chicago Police Officer Michael Allegretti, faces criminal
charges for allegedly ordering women to strip to avoid traffic tickets.