Is John Travolta a key witness in Peterson case?
BOLINGBROOK — Movie star John Travolta could end up a star witness in the Drew Peterson saga if push comes to shove in the embattled ex-cop’s felony weapons case.
“He’ll have to fly into Clow International Airport and testify,” Peterson’s attorney, Joel Brodsky, said of Travolta, the erstwhile mainstay of 1970s sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter.”
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Peterson’s publicist, Glenn Selig, released a photograph of Peterson in his SWAT team regalia receiving an autograph from Travolta, who was in town to hype his 2000 film “Battlefield Earth.” Peterson and the SWAT team ended up on Travolta’s security detail, Brodsky said.
“They were on their way to a drug bust when they got pulled off, then got assigned to protect John Travolta,” he said.
Brodsky says the photo shows Peterson toting the semi-automatic assault rifle he was arrested for owning last week. Peterson was charged because the gun’s barrel is allegedly shorter than the legal length.
Brodsky has said Peterson’s department cleared him to use the rifle in his SWAT duties, making the short barrel legal.
Police Chief Ray McGury said Peterson never asked for permission to carry the weapon.
“I think he needs to take another look at his records, because this (photograph) isn’t the only thing I got (proving he use the gun on the job),” Brodsky said.
Likewise, the felony gun case is not the only thing the cops have got going against Peterson. State police have named him their sole suspect in the “potential homicide” of his missing fourth wife Stacy.
State police also are investigating the mysterious March 2004 bathtub drowning of third wife Kathleen Savio.
Savio’s death was ruled a homicide following subsequent postmortem testing performed in the wake of Stacy’s October disappearance.
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