Chicago cop gets 7 years in prison for stealing cash and drugs
David Salgado and Xavier Elizondo
CHICAGO - A crooked Chicago Police officer was sentenced to more than 7 years in prison Friday after lying to get search warrants to help him and another cop steal drugs and cash.
Prosecutors said Xavier Elizondo and fellow officer David Salgado cloaked robberies and burglaries with “the veneer of lawfulness” and wrought “institutional havoc” on Cook County’s justice system, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Elizondo received 87 months in prison.
At his sentencing, prosecutors said Elizondo and his fellow officer, Salgado, “went into people’s homes and treated it like their personal police playground.” They “manipulated the entire legal system” and caused an “untold loss of public trust,” prosecutors said.