The Latest: Police say lie prompts Illinois police response
By The Associated Press, Associated Press
Sep 3, 2015 3:29 AM CDT
The Latest: Police say lie prompts Illinois police response
Fox Lake Police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz's wife Mel, right, hugs a mourner during a vigil at Lakefront Park to honor him, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, in Fox Lake, Ill. Gliniewicz was shot and killed Tuesday while pursuing a group of suspicious men. Authorities broadened the hunt Wednesday for the...   (Associated Press)

VOLO, Ill. (AP) — The latest on the fatal shooting of a police officer in northern Illinois (all times local):

3:15 a.m.

A county sheriff's spokesman says a woman lied to authorities about seeing two suspicious men in northern Illinois near where a police officer was fatally shot, a report that prompted a large police response.

Lake County Sheriff's Sgt. Christopher Covelli says about 85 federal, state and local law enforcement officials responded to the scene in Volo after the woman's report Wednesday night.

Volo is about 5 miles from Fox Lake, where Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was fatally shot Tuesday after he pursued three suspicious men into a swamp. A manhunt for the suspects has been ongoing since then.

Covelli says 11 police dogs and three air support units assisted in the hours-long search until the woman told detectives she had lied.

Covelli says the woman, 30-year-old Kristin B. Kiefer of Vernon Hills, has been charged with disorderly conduct and falsifying a police report. He says she's being held at the Lake County Jail until a bond hearing.

Police say Kiefer told detectives that she was seeking attention from a family that employs her and that she chose the location because she knew about Gliniewicz's death.

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