The former Chicago Police Department sergeant who was fired for leading the botched raid that left Anjanette Young handcuffed while naked inside her home is now a detective in north suburban Niles, even after an appellate court upheld his termination, records show.
Illinois’ First District Appellate Court ruled Sept. 8 that a Cook County judge properly upheld the Chicago Police Board’s June 2023 decision to terminate former Sgt. Alex Wolinski for his conduct in 2019, when he led a team of 12 officers into Young’s apartment looking for a man who did not live there. Wolinkski can still appeal that ruling to the Illinois Supreme Court.
Wolinski was hired by Niles about six months after the decision by the Chicago Police Board, which detailed multiple departmental rule violations. The city also settled a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over the raid…