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Article: Expect good things from veteran Nowak
- Article from:
- The Herald News - Joliet (IL)
- Article date:
- November 26, 2002
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Here's a hearty congratulations to Marty Nowak, who has been promoted as Will County's new undersheriff. I knew him when he was known as Mr. Borz.
Under that alias, he was a mob boss from Arizona.
But at the time, the sheriff's office was operating an undercover operation called "Achilles Heel." This was a police sting in which Nowak was posing as the boss of a chop-shop ring with his partner, Detective Pat Berry, acting as his bodyguard.
Over a series of weeks, Nowak and his "gang" bought 26 stolen late-model luxury cars from thieves. Nowak and Berry then composed the sheriff's organized crime unit, which was called the O.C. unit.
O.C. also stood for "the odd couple."
Nowak was the cop ...