Thaddeus Jimenez Arrested For The Second Time This Month

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Andy Hale

 Thaddeus "TJ" Jimenez has been arrested yet again, this time for scuffling with a Rosemont public safety officer. Jimenez was driving his 2000 Dodge Durango on I-90 near the River Road toll plaza and became upset when a Rosemont public safety officer asked him to move his vehicle to allow an ambulance to get by. Jimenez apparently threatened to beat up the officer and was arrested. He was charged with aggravated assault, resisting a peace officer, and possession of marijuana. Jimenez was arrested earlier this month at his Park Ridge home on drug and weapons charges - see the prior blog post. 

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Recently Exonerated Thaddeus "TJ" Jimenez Arrested On Felony Drug Charge

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Andy Hale

 Thaddeus "TJ" Jimenez, who was released from prison last year after serving 16 years for a murder conviction, has been arrested again. According to Rummana Hussain at the Chicago Sun-Times, police officers armed with a search warrant found 13 grams of suspected LSD, along with 3 loaded weapons - a 12 gauge Charles Daly shotgun, a Rock Island Armory 45 caliber semiautomatic, and a Glock 40 caliber semiautomatic - inside Jimenez's home.  Apparently, the police also recovered 6 stolen GPS devices, six boxes of ammunition, two digital scales, and numerous plastic baggies. Jimenez was convicted in 1994 of murdering 19 year old Eric Morro. Jimenez was only 13 years old at the time. Jimenez received a new trial and was found guilty again in 1997. In 2006, lawyers from the Northwestern University Center on Wrongful Convictions undertook his case and convinced the Cook County State's Attorney's Office to re-investigate the case after they claimed one of the eyewitnesses in the case was recanting his testimony. Jimenez wound up being released from prison last summer. He has since filed a civil lawsuit against numerous Chicago police officers claiming they violated his right to a fair trial. The police officers are being represented by the law firm of Andrew M. Hale & Associates.

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