Militia Suspect Once Tried To Hit Police Car
Police records show Piatek once steered his semi deliberately into path of police car
HOMEWOOD, Ill. - New details are emerging about Thomas Piatek, the Whiting, Indiana man who is accused in a militia plot to kill police officers.
Piatek is a truck driver. A new check of his police record shows, he once steered his semi deliberately into the path of a police car. It happened in Homewood in 1990.
The police officer swerved to miss the truck; then he turned around, chased Piatek down and arrested him.
As Piatek was booked, he told the officer, "I thought you were one of those (expletives) with their bright lights on all the time."
