RICHLAND CO.— The battle between two Illinois State Police agents, one a current investigator, one retired, is heating up in Richland County as it’s been confirmed that ISP’s Rick White, operating in Zone 7 investigations, is indeed under a perjury investigation for his testimony in a Stalking/No-Contact Order case there.
White was taken to court in February 2013 by retired ISP agent Kelly Henby, who claimed that White had been spending an inordinate amount of time asking around about Henby and the doings of both him and his wife, Donna, and made the claim that by White attending the funeral of a Henby family member, that was enough to constitute stalking under Illinois law.
Judge Chris Weber did not agree, and stated in Feb. 2013 that there needed to be two such acts of harassment, intimidation or surveillance before the matter could rise to “stalking” and an OP be granted, but he gave Henby leave to amend his petition, and Henby did so in December, alleging that White’s pursuit of a misdemeanor charge against Henby in Coles County was just such an example of “harassment,” and so he included that in his amended petition.
Where the ‘perjury’ claim came in, according to Henby through his attorney, Chuck Roberts in the filing, was when Roberts asked White to take the stand as an adverse witness in the OP case, then asked him if he knew that the subject in Coles County (former Wayne County Sheriff Jim Hinkle’s stepdaughter, see back page story) had “previously recanted her story.”
To this, White replied that he did not know.
Evidence in the case indicates, however, that White did indeed know that the young teen had recanted her story, this evidence later coming out when White testified at Illinois Department of Professional Regulations hearings when he attempted to get Henby’s PERC card (Permanent Employee Registration Certificate) removed when Henby was working for a private investigation service in southern Illinois.
On this basis, Richland County State’s Attorney David Hyde is seeking evidentiary material from the state police in order to pursue a charge of perjury against White.
Hyde has come up against the same roadblocks ISP has thrown into Disclosure’s investigation into same: Disclosure submitted a FOIA May 9 to ISP about the evidence logs in the case into Hinkle as it involved Henby, and was told that because the case involved a juvenile, they couldn’t respond. Disclosure advised that because there were never any charges filed, and because only evidence logs were being requested, not reports/videos/etc., those could be redacted if anything in them indicated juvenile information.
It’s unknown whether that’s the exact roadblock Hyde has encountered; but on file at the Richland County courthouse is a response on behalf of White from Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office, who has stepped into the fray in an attempt to quash the OP case against White…showing once again that the state is, inexplicably, attempting to protect White from himself.
White has been screwing up cases for years now, and this latest may be the culmination of those screwups. Be watching disclosurenewsonline.com for developments.