DuPage County undersheriff put on leave

DuPage County Undersheriff Eddie Moore has been placed on administrative leave amid an investigation into whether he struck someone with his car last month in the parking lot of an Oak Brook restaurant.

Moore, who is seeking to become the Republican nominee for DuPage sheriff in the March 17 primary, confirmed in a statement Thursday that he was involved in an incident on Valentine’s Day after he and his wife ate dinner at a restaurant in Oak Brook.

“While pulling my car around to pick up my wife, an individual stepped in front of the vehicle and believed he had been struck,” Moore’s statement reads. “I immediately stopped, got out, and repeatedly asked if he needed assistance. He declined. My wife, who is a nurse, came over and also checked on him, and he again refused help.”

Moore said he exchanged information with the man and they “handled the situation responsibly at the scene.”

But according to Moore, the man wrote down the wrong phone number. The man later asked Oak Brook police to help him locate Moore.

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