31 AUG, 2002 - 1300 CDT The Amateur Radio licensee information and newspaper report was forwarded to me by a local ham friend. Evidently, Hap Holly may have given this unfortunate news item national exposure with his RAIN Report. FWIW, this idiot IS NOT an ARRL member. I would love see Riley Hollingsworth cancel his license. BTW, the village of Inverness is generally considered to be expensive - a "high rent" district. 73 - Dick, W9GIG ======================================================================== BILY, WILLIAM S, WB9DIG (Tech Plus) 2039 BRADWELL INVERNESS, IL 60067-4369 Issue Date: Jan 27, 1995 Expire Date: Jan 27, 2005 Date of last Change: Jan 27, 1995 ======================================================================== Suspect In Cop's Death Told to Give Up Radios By Aamer Madhani Chicago Tribune staff reporter August 30, 2002, 2:24 PM CDT An Inverness man whose alleged misuse of a police radio channel led to a scuffle with an officer who subsequently died from a heart attack has been ordered to surrender his radio gear to authorities. Presiding Cook County Judge Joseph Urso ordered that William Bily, 56, by Tuesday turn over all his transmitting equipment -- including a treasure trove of ham radio gear -- to Barrington-Inverness police as a condition of his release on bond while awaiting trial. Bily appeared today in the Rolling Meadows branch of Cook County Circuit Court in connection with misdemeanor charges of resisting a peace officer and interfering with emergency communications. A longtime amateur radio enthusiast, Bily allegedly disrupted police communications Sunday by transmitting over the Barrington-Inverness police radio channel. When Officer Steven Graham came to his home, Bily allegedly resisted arrest. During their tussle, Graham, 53, suffered a fatal heart attack, authorities said. Asserting the heart attack resulted from the scuffle, the Cook County medical examiner's office ruled Graham's death a homicide. But Assistant State's Atty. Steven Rosenblum said today his office does not intend to seek more serious charges against Bily. Bily's attorney, Frank Cece, asked that his client be forced to hand over only gear that could cut into the police radio band. He maintained that Bily, a Marine veteran who saw combat during the Vietnam War, has much equipment that poses no risk to police radio frequencies. "Ham radio is a lifelong hobby of my client," Cece said. "I don't know what detriment is caused to the people." But Rosenblum countered police had visited Bily's house on July 4, 2000, for interrupting their frequency. "This is not the first occasion," the prosecutor said. Urso also ordered that, as part of the bond agreement, Bily not possess any firearms and that he not contact the family of Graham -- a 29-year veteran of the department and son of the late state Sen. John Graham. A bench trial was set for Oct. 2 in the Rolling Meadows courthouse. Copyright (c) 2002, Chicago Tribune