2 Investigators: Socked With Bogus Tickets

October 31, 2011 12:00 AM " CHICAGO (CBS) — A Northwest Side community feels under siege after being blanketed with tickets by a Chicago police officer.

CBS 2′s Dave Savini investigated the cases of suburbanites being ticketed in Chicago for not having a city sticker.

Mike Spilotro’s sister lives in North Riverside, and her car is registered there. It even has a Riverside sticker in the car window.

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But she received more than 20 tickets in two and a half weeks while visiting Spilotro’s Chicago home. Each one is for $120, which totals up to thousands of dollars in fines.

“I think the city is just broke and they’re looking for money,” Spilotro says.

All the tickets were written by the same officer, Gary Sanabria, who allegedly has been blanketing the cars of suburban visitors with tickets.

Rocio Rodriguez says this is very frustrating.

“That’s a lot of money,” said Rodriguez, who fought her tickets and had them all dismissed.

Her mother is about to fight her tickets, too. Mike Spilotro has successfully gotten almost all of his sister’s tickets dismissed, and he says the officer is wasting city time. "

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