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Illinois State Police on Saturday took into custody the off-duty Chicago police detective accused of drunken driving and causing an accident that killed two people Friday morning. Joseph Frugoli, 4… ...
Relatives of Fausto Manzera, who was killed in a 2009 crash involving ex-Chicago cop Joseph Frugoli, look on at left. | Mitchell Armentrout/Sun-Times.
Killed in the 2009 crash were Andrew Cazares, 23, of Summit, and Fausto Manzera, 21, a DePaul University student. Friday's sentencing hearing included emotional victim-impact statements from ...
The $20 million settlement – $15 million paid by taxpayers, the remaining $5 million covered by excess insurance – will be divided evenly between the families of Fausto Manzera and Andrew Cazares.
The lawsuits involve cases like that of Fausto Manzera, 21.Manzera was hit and killed by Chicago Police Officer Joseph Frugoli, 50. Frugoli was driving drunk at the time of the 2009 crash – his ...
Joseph Frugoli pleaded guilty in July to aggravated DUI for the April 10, 2009 crash that killed 21-year-old Fausto Manzera and 23-year-old Andrew Cazaras.
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago City Council has agreed to pay $20 million to the families of two men killed when a drunken off-duty police officer slammed into their car in 2009.
Joseph Frugoli sits in the back of a state police squad car, as he is driven from Northwestern Memorial Hospital to a state police facility for processing. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune)MORE PHOTOS T… ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Nearly nine years after a fiery crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway, the families of Andrew Cazares and Fausto Manzera say they finally have closure. The men were killed by off-duty ...
April 15, 2009 (CHICAGO) Family and friends began arriving at a Justice funeral home to pay their respects to Andrew Cazares. Cazares and Fausto Manzara were pulled over to the far right lane near ...
A wrongful death suit claiming the Chicago Police Department’s “code of silence” enabled an off-duty drunken-driving detective to cause a fatal wreck can hit the gas pedal, a fede… ...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago City Council has agreed to pay $20 million to the families of two men killed when a drunken off-duty police officer slammed into their car in 2009.Krystal Cazares sa… ...