Ronald Watts

Cook County prosecutors are believed to be preparing to overturn the convictions of scores of individuals arrested on narcotics charges by corrupt Chicago Police Sgt. Ronald Watts and officers under his command.

The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office has signaled that it plans to agree with the effort to overturn more than 50 convictions against dozens of people with cases connected to disgraced Chicago Police Sgt. Ronald Watts, setting up what may become the largest mass exoneration in Cook County history, an attorney for those individuals said Friday.

Most lawyers would consider it a monumental victory if they walked out of court with five clients exonerated of their crimes. Problem is, the case before Judge Erica Reddick had the names of 88 individuals seeking to have their cases thrown out.

NBC 5 investigates the code of silence scandal that has plagued the Chicago Police Department as prosecutors on Thursday dropped the convictions of five more men tied to corrupt ex-Sgt. Ronald Watts. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers reports.

In a case which has already become the largest scandal in Chicago Police Department history, attorneys are asking why it is taking so long for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office to provide relief for dozens of individuals who say they were framed by corrupt officers who worked for years at the former Ida B. Wells housing project on Chicago’s...

After Ronald Watts was accused, along with officers under his command, of framing hundreds of individuals, nearly 90 people are asking to have their convictions thrown out. Some are asking why the wheels are moving so slowly. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers reports.

Two years after Chicago’s police investigating agency called for three Chicago police officers to be relieved of their police powers, all three remain on the force, according to the city’s payroll database.

Dozens of people are asking a court to throw out their convictions on drug charges because they say they were framed by the same former Chicago Police sergeant who judges have determined shook down dozens more

Dozens of people are asking a court to throw out their drug convictions, alleging they were framed by the same former Chicago Police sergeant who judges have determined shook down other residents of one of the city’s poorest communities. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the details.

On Monday, more than three years after taking the case, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability issued its first recommendations in the case to Chicago Police Department Supt. David Brown.

On Monday, Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability turned over its investigation of Ronald Watts to Police Superintendent David Brown. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports.

The largest scandal in the Chicago Police Department’s history continued to grow Friday, as prosecutors asked a judge to throw out the convictions of nine individuals who said they were framed by a rogue sergeant and the tactical team under his command.

Nine more overturned convictions have been linked to a disgraced Chicago Police Department sergeant. In all, 109 cases have been vacated. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers reports.

A judge has thrown out nine more felony drug convictions who were framed by a disgraced former Chicago police sergeant who spent years arresting people he planted drugs on dozens of others

A judge on Tuesday threw out the felony drug convictions of six men who were framed by a disgraced former Chicago police sergeant’s team, bringing to 100 the number of overturned convictions linked to a years-long scheme to shake down residents of one of the city’s poorest communities.

For the fifth time, the Cook County State’s Attorney has approved mass exonerations for a group of men wrongly convicted of drug crimes while under investigation by corrupt Chicago Police Sgt. Ronald Watts. In a courtroom at 26th and California, Judge LeRoy Martin, Jr. on Tuesday morning approved a motion by attorneys of 12 men to vacate the convictions. Later,…

A dozen men, who have alleged former CPD Sergeant Ronald Watts framed them in drug cases, are expected to attend a court hearing on Tuesday, according to their attorney.

Eight men who were framed in drug cases tied to former Chicago police sergeant Ronald Watts have filed lawsuits in federal court against several officers, the police department and city.

Cook County prosecutors threw out the convictions of four more men, Wednesday, in connection with a growing scandal in the Chicago Police Department.