New warrant issued for suspect charged with impersonating a police officer
One of four men recently charged in DuPage County with impersonating a police officer at area homes is the subject of a new arrest warrant.
Luke Halstead, 19, of the 1N500 block of Turnberry near Winfield, is wanted on a $3,000 warrant and is charged with harassment through electronic communications for an offense that happened in January, authorities said.
According to court documents, Halstead is accused of threatening to injure a Winfield man, via an electronic communication, at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 28.
Halstead is currently free after posting 10% of his $20,000 bond in the impersonation case. He also was ordered to be fitted with a GPS monitoring device.
In that case, Halstead, Thomas Kozie of Oak Park, Cory Abendroth of Wheaton, and Khoung Dam of Carol Stream were charged with impersonating an officer after they made late-night stops at homes in Wheaton, Winfield and West Chicago. The four recorded the visits and planned to post the recordings on social media.
Prosecutors say at 10:05 p.m. on June 3, Kozie, of the 900 block of Fair Oaks in Oak Park, approached a house near West Chicago, rang the doorbell and identified himself as Jeff Rushmore, an investigator with the Winfield Police Department.
Kozie told the homeowner he was compiling a missing-person report regarding a neighbor two doors down. After briefly speaking to the homeowner, Kozie entered a vehicle occupied by Abendroth, Halstead and Dam, who were filming the exchange, and left, authorities said.
After the encounter, the homeowner called the DuPage County sheriff's office.
Later that night, the men went to several homes in West Chicago, Wheaton and Winfield, authorities said. At each one, Kozie rang the doorbell and identified himself as a police officer, using different names while the others waited in a vehicle filming.
At the time of the June offenses, Halstead also was on bail for a misdemeanor domestic battery case from April 21.