Cop Charged With Honey Bee Shootings Sues Sheriff, State's Attorney

The Lynwood police officer charged with murder and locked up for a weekend last year filed a federal lawsuit against the Will County sheriff and state's attorney alleging they conspired to falsely arrest and imprison him.

Brian Dorian, the cop charged with the Honey Bee shooting spree, is looking to take $10 million off Sheriff Paul Kaupas and State's Attorney James Glasgow, along with Dean Morelli, an investigator in Glasgow's office.

Dorian was arrested a year and five days ago in connection with a shooting spree on both sides of the Illinois-Indiana border. The gun attacks claimed the life of one man and left another two wounded.

Dorian spent the Columbus Day weekend in jail but was released after appearing court that Tuesday afternoon. Investigators determined Dorian had been using a computer in his home during the shootings and could not have carried them out the attacks.

On Thursday, Dorian's attorney, Gregory Kulis, filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging conspiracy, false arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution.

The lawsuit claims "a SWAT team unit for the Will County Sheriff’s Department armed with automatic weapons descended upon the home of Lynwood Police Officer Brian Dorian and took him into custody" and that Sheriff "Paul Kaupas and Will County States Attorney James W. Glasgow held a sensationalized press conference announcing to the world that they had the 'Honey Bee Killer.'”

The suit says Kaupas, Glasgow and Morelli "fabricated evidence and supplied slanderous and defamatory information to the press in order to justify their actions," and that Dorian "incurred emotional distress, fear, anxiety and monetary expense" as a result of his holiday weekend ordeal.

"This incident would not have happened in Cook County, in DuPage County, in Kane County," Kulis said. "Will County rushes to charge and then scrambles to find evidence to support those charges."

Kulis went on to say that, "This is a pattern of the way things are done in Will County."

Kaupas said he first learned of the lawsuit from Patch.

"I don't know anything about it," the sheriff said. "I haven't been served or seen anything."

The sheriff's department and the state's attorney's office later released a joint statement.

“The lawsuit filed today misrepresents the investigation into the Octobter 2010 shootings in eastern Will County and in Indiana," the statement said. "The investigation was conducted according to the letter of the law. We are confident a court will find the actions of the parties named as defendants in this lawsuit to be justified after all of the evidence is presented.”

Updated at 6:18 pm on Oct. 13 with the statement from the sheriff's department and the state's attorney's office.