On October 4th, 2006, a pickup truck was stolen from the Mobil gas station at Alpine and Highcrest in Rockford, Illinois.
The next day, October 5th, that pickup truck was seen by a friend of the owners who called 911 and reported the direction the car was traveling.
Rockford police officer Joshua Grover found the pick up truck in the Beacon hill apartment complex parking lot.
Inside the truck was Patrick Fortney. As Grover approached the car, Patrick drove in reverse and ran over Grover’s foot.
Grover shot three times as Patrick drove away.
Patrick was not hit.
Joshua Grover plead guilty to four cases of possession of child porn.
Grover and who submitted letters of support to the court asking for leniency alleged that the trauma from this incident, responding to graphic scenes as a police officer and anti police protests in 2020 led him down the path of trading and collecting child porn.
In 2021, the Illinois department of homeland security were led to the Grover household after Investigators found 298 items of pornography materials on his phone. 100+ were of individual prepubescent children.
He was accused of collecting, trading and hoarding child pornographic images and videos across multiple platforms.
He was placed on paid administrative leave. He now works as a mechanic in Wisconsin.
At one point his counselor testified that Grover first had gotten into child p*rn following an on duty shooting that occurred in October of 2006.
In court, four videos played for the judge to view, only audible for the gallery.
The first was 8+ seconds of children screaming.
In another, a man is heard instructing a young child to engage in s*xual activity.
He plead guilty to four cases after initially facing 14 charges.
Each charge typically carries 3-7 years. He was sentenced to:
48 months probation.
He has to register to as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
He cannot have any contact with children besides his own for 4 years.
89 days in the Winnebago County Jail.
No drugs or alcohol consumption.
~$1,100 in court fines.
This was the second Rockford police shooting in 2006 and ninth deadly force incident in Winnebago County in the 2000’s