Chicago cop fired after criminal past revealed

A veteran Chicago police officer was fired after an investigation revealed he concealed a felony conviction when he applied for the job. David Hayes pleaded guilty in 1995 to leaving the scene of an accident after he crashed a car into an Illinois state trooper's vehicle, injuring the officer, and then fled. He turned himself in to state police and was eventually sentenced to two years of probation. Months after pleading guilty, Hayes applied to be an officer, marking on his job application that he had never been convicted of a crime or been interviewed by police in a criminal matter. A police investigator conducted a routine background check, but the criminal conviction didn't turn up.