Late Sunday Night, June 22nd, 2014
My mysterious caller had said I’d find my answer in Chicago. So far, I had a whole lot of nothing.
According to Roan, the entire sting operation had been botched from the word go. Augustine Fero had ended up charged only with the misdemeanor offense of receiving stolen property. In a stunning lack of thought and planning, Roan’s team and the Cook County Sheriff’s Department had given Terri cards with names on them but no loaded free play or comp amounts for the sting set up. When those cards were later turned up in Fero’s possession, they had no cash value associated with them, so a gang lawyer got the felony charge initially leveled against Fero reduced to a misdemeanor. Because the Sheriff had moved in to bust Fero too quickly, her contact got away. F
