The death of an Illinois police officer which sparked a large manhunt has now been ruled a suicide.

Fox Lake police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz carefully staged his death to make it look a homicide, according to George Filenko, commander of the Lake County Major Crime Task Force. Filenko says it looks like Gliniewicz was stealing and laundering money from the police department for years to pay for personal expenses, and took his own life due to fears of his crimes being discovered.

Gliniewicz was a leader in the department’s program which mentors young people interested in law enforcement careers. Filenko says it looks like Gliniewicz stole money from the program for seven years, using it for everything from mortgage payments to memberships on adult websites.

After Gliniewicz’s death on September 1st, more than 400 law enforcement officers searched through the Fox Lake area looking for suspects in the shooting.

In other State news, a new Springfield non-profit distributing wholesale drugs normally destroyed is working to send them instead to parts of the world that may need them more.

Doctor Rod Matticks is president of “12 Baskets Full” — and says everything from anti-depressants to blood glucose meds are collected by the new group, with their first source being the Sangamon County Jail and Sheriff Wes Barr.

Matticks says most of the time, the medicines go back to their original dispensaries, or somehow, in his words, “end up in the ecosystem.”