BENTON – Seven St. Clair County jail inmates stated meritorious claims that Sheriff Rick Watson failed to protect them from coronavirus, Senior U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert ruled on April 5.
BELLEVILLE -- A motorist and several passengers claim a St. Clair County Sheriff's Deputy drove into an intersection without lights or sirens and caused a collision.
EAST ST. LOUIS – St. Clair County sheriff Rick Watson must produce records on sexual misconduct allegations against any member of the department since January 2012, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Williams ruled on Nov. 8.
SPRINGFIELD – St. Clair County posted the state’s highest homicide rate from 2010 to 2016, and ranked near the top in rape, robbery, burglary, and aggravated assault and battery, according to annual state police reports.
CAHOKIA – St. Clair County Sheriff Rick Watson, as a trustee of Cahokia police pensions, apologized to fellow trustee Francella Jackson on Oct. 17, for his behavior at a previous board meeting.
BELLEVILLE – While St. Clair County Sheriff Rick Watson relies on a contract for Cahokia police managers to justify a pension equal to his last salary as police chief in 2011, the village currently challenges the document’s validity in court.
BELLEVILLE – Margaret Eros of Belleville, whose actions as treasurer for Sheriff Rick Watson’s campaign caused her to lose her job as a St. Clair County election clerk last week, has worked hard for several other Democrat office holders through the years.
BENTON – Sheriff Rick Watson and St. Clair County must defend claims that their failures caused deputy Robert Sneed to sexually assault a woman in her home twice, U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle ruled on Aug. 10.
After 30 years serving in the Fairview Heights Police Department, Nick Gailius recently retired as Chief and turned his attention to fighting crime on a larger scale.
