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Authorities: Accused officer killed self in cell

Posted November 04, 2014 12:01 am

Associated Press

A Cook County sheriff's spokeswoman says an officer committed suicide in a federal lockup after he and his partner were arrested during a corruption sting.

Cook County sheriff spokeswoman Cara Smith says 45-year-old Stanley Kogut was found Tuesday hanging from a bed sheet in his cell in Chicago's federal Metropolitan Correctional Center. Kogut's partner, 44-year-old Robert Vaughan, later appeared in U.S. District Court on charges of conspiracy charges.

It wasn't immediately known if Vaughan has an attorney.

Smith says the officers were assigned to the federal High Intensity Drug Task Force. A federal complaint says they were arrested Monday in Bedford Park after ripping off an undercover FBI agent posing as a drug dealer.

Authorities say they took about 70 pounds of marijuana from an undercover FBI agent's vehicle.

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