Crime & Safety
Deputy Accused of Breaking Man's Neck at Plainfield Auto Shop, Suit Says
The Will County sheriff's officer reportedly fractured man's vertebra and damaged his liver while arresting him in fight over a car, according to the federal lawsuit.
A Will County sheriff's deputy is accused in a lawsuit of breaking the neck of a private detective last year while responding to a dispute over a classic Pontiac Trans Am at a Plainfield auto repair shop.
Matt Griebel, 30, is accused not only of fracturing a vertebra in Donald Swanson's neck, but also of pummeling him so severely his liver was damaged and clamping handcuffs on so tightly they severed the ulnar nerves in Swanson's wrists, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week against Griebel and the Will County Sheriff's Office.
On June 4, 2010, Swanson called authorities and asked them to send a deputy to a Plainfield auto-restoration shop, the complaint said. Swanson was dropping off $12,000 to take possession of his 1975 Trans Am, but he had been in a heated dispute with a shop manager who he believed kept raising the price of the work unreasonably, increasing it from $16,500 to more than $30,000.
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