Cop Steals Slot Machine Ticket from Cop

It seems that if you are going to steal, first of all you should not be a policeman. It also stands to reason that if you choose to ignore the first warning, you shouldn’t steal from another policeman – even if he is retired. However, if you choose to ignore both of these warnings, then your name must be Marshall Dunnigan.

Believe it or not, former Peoria Police Lt. Marshall Dunnigan, and we say former because he was fired after he stole from Roger Lowery – a retired Peoria policeman, chose to ignore all of the previous warnings and supposedly stole gambling winnings. Allegedly, Dunnigan took a winning wagering receipt from a slot machine that belonged to another customer, who turned out to be Lowery.

They were both playing the slot machines at the Par-a-Dice riverboat casino when Dunnigan supposedly took the receipt worth about $700 from the retired policeman. Not only did he know that Lowery was a retired policeman, he knew that he was taking money that belonged to him specifically as he knew which slot machine the man had been playing.

The worst part of all of this is not that Dunnigan stole money from another slot machine player, or even that he stole at all. It is the mere fact that he would steal from a fellow police officer, and one that was retired at that. The riverboat’s security system caught the act on tape, and the Illinois Gaming Commission is keeping that under wraps, but Dunnigan has been terminated from the force.

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