Harvey Cop Attacked Ex-Girlfriend & Her New Guy at Her New Lenox Home: Police

A detective with the Harvey Police Department was arrested during his daughter’s graduation party for allegedly scuffling with the girl’s mother and the mother’s new boyfriend.

Jeffrey Crocker, 44, was charged with domestic battery and assault in connection with the Saturday night incident at his former girlfriend’s New Lenox home.

In a petition for a protective order, Crocker’s former girlfriend, Jennifer Olson, said she works for the Cook County Sheriff. Crocker said Olson and her boyfriend, Michael Kimball, are both Cook County deputies.

Crocker, a Beecher resident, said Kimball started the altercation by making a threatening gesture.

“Something like that,” he said.

“It was at the end of the night and there had been tension all day,” Crocker said.

The tension was over Kimball’s presence at the party, he said.

“He wasn’t supposed to be there,” Crocker said. “Those two have an on-and-off and on-and-off relationship and my kids don’t get along with him.”

In her petition, Olson said Crocker knocked her out of a chair and then attacked Kimball.

“I tried to get him off my boyfriend,” Olson said. “I grabbed his shirt from behind to get him off my boyfriend.”

The struggle to get Crocker off her boyfriend left Olson with “strawberry burns on (her) left elbow” and a “sliced” big toe.

Olson said Crocker is “angry because he never moved on since we broke up seven years ago.”

“He is very jealous of my new boyfriend,” she said.

Olson petitioned for a 2009 protective order against Crocker in Will County and also petitioned for a protective order against him in Kankakee County, according to court records.

The court order obtained by Olson Tuesday required Crocker to surrender his .45-caliber pistol.

Harvey Police Chief Denard Eaves refused to say if the department took any action against Crocker or if he is still on active duty.

“This incident just occurred so I’m not at liberty to discuss anything about Detective Crocker,” Eaves said.

Crocker said he was placed on administrative leave and he does not know if he will continue to get paid.

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