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An Illinois lawmaker says his office was ransacked during a fire that damaged his district office.

Firefighters were called Monday night to 101 S. Point Drive, where State Representative Dwight Kay (R-Glen Carbon) has an office. Other parts of the multi-unit building were damaged badly. Kay’s office has smoke damage and that’s what Representative Kay expected to find, but he says there was more.

“We just observed our office has been ransacked. I’m sure at this point, some sort of foul play may be considered,” says Representative Kay.

After taking a good look inside the office, Kay said it looks as if someone was inside looking for something.

“All the desk drawers were pulled out, emptied. All the papers on the desktops were thrown on the floor,” says Representative Kay.

* But…

Chris Guy, a spokesman for Kay, R-Edwardsville, said fire investigators told him most of the damage was in the basement. He said he and Kay went into Kay’s office today and saw smoke damage but found nothing “of consequence” damaged or missing. Guy and Kay retrieved supplies and computers from the office today.

I talked with an Edwardsville police spokesman shortly after noon today who said there are no new updates. He did say that as far as he knew, nothing was missing from Rep. Kay’s office. He also said he didn’t know whether the open desk drawers and strewn papers could’ve been done by firefighters. However, he said the case was being investigated as a suspicious fire and a possible burglary.

If this is politically related, it’s awful darned stupid. There is no statute of limitations for arson in Illinois.

…Adding… Oops. A now-deleted story about the egg-throwing popped up on a Google News search by date. I didn’t notice that both stories I eventually posted on the incident were actually from 2012. Sorry about that. Better take my own advice and stick to Bing.

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Nov 20, 13 @ 12:56 pm

Comments

18 eggs - quite a precise count. What’d they do with the other 6? Omelets?

Comment by dupage dan Wednesday, Nov 20, 13 @ 1:18 pm
Did they have some pork with those eggs?

Comment by Nearly Normal Wednesday, Nov 20, 13 @ 1:28 pm
Well it wasn’t pizza so that rule out some people. Just kidding

Comment by Tom Wednesday, Nov 20, 13 @ 1:39 pm
What would there to be “found” in a state reps. office?

Comment by wordslinger Wednesday, Nov 20, 13 @ 1:55 pm
Somebody probably heard about Dwight’s juggernaut campaign to be Republican leader and wanted to stop him in his tracks.

Comment by LincolnLounger Wednesday, Nov 20, 13 @ 2:22 pm
That’s fire Madigan–not Kay. Oy vay, the help we get now days

Comment by train111 Wednesday, Nov 20, 13 @ 2:29 pm
The links to the Bustos articles are from September 2012.

Still getting your news via carrier pigeon, eh Rich? lol

Comment by qcexaminer Wednesday, Nov 20, 13 @ 2:59 pm
Maybe it happened again.

Comment by lil enchilada Wednesday, Nov 20, 13 @ 3:05 pm
18 eggs qualifies as fowl play.

Comment by a drop in Wednesday, Nov 20, 13 @ 3:10 pm
Sounds like a case for GManJim to probe. He can don those skin tight jeans and whisk on down to Eville to ferret out what we are sure in Dwight’s confused mind is a Watergate style effort to grab all his secrets

Comment by CircularFiringSquad Wednesday, Nov 20, 13 @ 3:14 pm
If they were in fact after something political, wouldn’t that prevent Rep. Kay from being able to file a report or identify what was taken as this was his district office?

Comment by Dirty Red Wednesday, Nov 20, 13 @ 3:52 pm