Joseph Pecora, a former Chicago police officer who served federal time in 2006 for taking 50 pounds of pot from a drug supplier, has been sentenced to probation after DNA evidence allegedly tied him to a $350,000 burglary on the city’s Northwest Side.
Shortly before 8 a.m. on May 6, 2023, someone entered a 79-year-old woman’s home in the 5700 block of West School by breaking a basement window while she was away. The burglar stole about $350,000 in cash from a safe and slipped out, according to Chicago police records. But investigators also found blood on a basement curtain and sent it for DNA testing.
Prosecutors said the sample matched Pecora…