Belle Montgomery
2nd Lieutenant
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2017
- Location
- 44022
Confederate calvary members get into position during a mock battle at Civil War Days in the Lakewood Forest Preserve July 11, 2018. (Michael Schmidt, Lake County News-Sun)
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that it has requested information from the Lake County Forest Preserves about threats related to this week’s cancellation of the annual Civil War Days event.
In the statement, sheriff’s officials said they offered Friday to conduct an investigation into the threats and safety concerns for the Lakewood Forest Preserve event, telling forest preserves officials that all they needed was an official request to start such an inquiry.
Forest preserves officials initially made no such request, according to the statement, and instead on Monday put out a statement that they were cancelling the scheduled mid-July reenactment event over “public safety concerns” after consulting with local and state law enforcement agencies.
However,
, the statement added that on Tuesday forest preserves board Commissioner Dick Barr "requested the Sheriff’s Office conduct a criminal investigation into the threats, to determine if the threats were criminal in nature, and if so, work to hold those accountable who made such threats.”
It went on to say that sheriff’s investigators have requested from the forest preserves administration, “all of the documentation and information surrounding any threats made concerning ‘Civil War Days.’...
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