Peterson gets his SUV back

'I'm sure they wired it for sound.

I don't think they washed it.'

March 19, 2008

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JOE HOSEY Herald-News

Drew Peterson was told by a judge he could have his cars back by 9 a.m. Tuesday. Peterson showed up at five minutes after the hour.

"Just picking up the car, you know," Peterson said after he and a companion showed up at District 5 State Police headquarters to reclaim his GMC Yukon Denali and Pontiac Grand Prix.

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He greeted a State Police special agent and attempted to shake his hand, but the agent snubbed him. "That's what I expected," said Peterson, a retired Bolingbrook cop who abruptly quit after 29 years on the force when he came under scrutiny for his wife Stacy's disappearance. "No hug, no kiss."

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State Police seized Peterson's vehicles on Nov. 1 as evidence. Stacy Peterson has been missing since Oct. 28. State Police have called her disappearance a "potential homicide" and named Drew Peterson a suspect.

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Peterson's attorney, Joel Brodsky, won the return of the vehicles, as well as computers and 11 firearms that also had been confiscated and held as evidence, but State's Attorney James Glasgow blocked Peterson from getting his guns back by persuading State Police to revoke his firearm owner's identification card. Peterson is appealing the revocation.

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On Monday, Peterson said he was annoyed with the "Where is Stacy Peterson???" fliers posted in the windows of his next-door neighbor, Sharon Bychowski. He said the fliers cause his children to ask uncomfortable questions like, "Why is that picture there?"

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"I tell them, 'The pictures are up because they miss her,' " Peterson said. "I don't tell them they put them up to harass me." Bychowski said harassment has nothing to do with it. "Why is he worried about people looking for Stacy?" she said. "It should be in his best interest to look for Stacy."

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Peterson's companion drove off in the Grand Prix. Peterson opened the back of the Yukon and checked the interior before getting in. "I'm sure they wired it for sound," he said. "The big problem I have, I don't think they gassed it and washed it."