A Cook County judge has undone one of the most confounding pretrial detention decisions we’ve reported, ordering a man accused of killing a pedestrian while driving drunk in Lakeview jailed after another judge released him on electronic monitoring.
The reversal of fortune for 34-year-old Miroslaw Ciszek came after prosecutors asked the court to reconsider his release—a rare move in Cook County, as CWB Chicago reported in an exclusive story earlier this year.
Ciszek is accused of striking 25-year-old Sarah Milcarek as she crossed the 1400 block of West Irving Park Road around 9:20 p.m. on August 8, then driving away with her body lodged in the rear window of his Nissan. He allegedly crashed twice more, fled on foot, fought with two men who tried to stop him, and hid in a park for hours before police found him…