12/16/2022
State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart would not say explicitly why Crimo Jr.’s sponsorship amounted to a crime, but hinted it was due to the father’s possible knowledge of his son’s troubled background.
“He knew what he knew and he signed the form anyway,” Rinehart said at a news conference at the Lake County courthouse in Waukegan. “This was criminally reckless and a contributing cause to the bodily harm suffered by the victims on July 4.”
Crimo Jr. faces seven counts of the charge — one for each person killed in the attack. Felony reckless conduct has maximum penalty of three years in prison, but probation is also an option.
Rinehart said Crimo Jr. turned himself in to Highland Park police Friday, and faces a bond hearing Saturday.
Crimo Jr.’s lawyer, George Gomez, who said in the past that his client hadn’t been aware Crimo III was a danger to anyone when he sponsored the FOID card, blasted the charges as baseless and unprecedented.
“On the eve of the statute of limitations for reckless conduct related to the sponsorship of Crimo III’s FOID application, the Lake County state’s attorney hastily made a decision to charge my client,” Gomez said in a statement.
“This decision should alarm every single parent in the United States of America who according to the Lake County state’s attorney knows exactly what is going on with their 19-year-old adult children and can be held criminally liable for actions taken nearly three years later. These charges are absurd and we will fight them every step of the way.
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