Reginald Potts’ Record Examined; More On Cell Phone

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The Chicago Sun-Times has more on Reginald Potts’ extensive history of contacts with police in Illinois. Reginald Potts was recently charged in the death of Nailah Franklin who was discovered dead in Calumet City after an extensive search in Illinois and Indiana after she had gone missing after failing to show up for a work meeting.

Reports Annie Sweeney in the Sun-Times:

Reginald Potts’ extensive court record reveals a history of angry clashes with women and police, and a penchant for stealing cars.

He also appears to have enjoyed the finer things, driving luxury cars like Bentleys and Mercedes, carrying as much as $2,500 in cash, and living in the city’s posher neighborhoods. In interviews, he mentions state officials he says he knows. …

“Absolutely I did not have anything to do with this,” (Reginald Potts) said of Franklin’s death, in an interview.

Princess Dominique has a post with more about Reginald Potts gathered from the internet.

Potts has an interesting criminal history involving prior assaults on girlfriends and an escape from FBI custody. To look at his photo he seems to be a man with a charming, reserved demeanor. But looks can be deceiving. The twist in all of this is that the man (or one of his many girlfriends) has leaked emails between Nailah and Potts onto the internet in a move to absolve him of guilt. But one of his responses to her emails paints him in a harsh light (maybe they shouldn’t have leaked that email?)

Apparently, Nailah was smitten with this playboy who was well-to-do with multiple businesses, multiple women, and lived a lavish lifestyle that included a posh condo and a fancy home in the suburbs. According to the emails she sent to Potts, Nailah was dating him but was not in a serious relationship with Potts. As often happens when young women give it up up to “ballers,” her emotions got involved which led her to make some questionable decisions - like not asking him to use protection.

The Chicago Tribune reports that Reginald Potts’ cell phone records show that he was in the Calumet City area, instead of the places where he says he was on the day Nailah Franklin was killed, thus destroying his alibi.

The day that Chicago police say Nailah Franklin was killed, the man charged in her death claimed he was shopping at a retail store and hanging out with friends at several Gold Coast hot spots, sources said.

But Wentworth Area detectives and the FBI instead tracked Reginald Potts Jr.’s cell phone that evening to the Calumet City area, where Franklin’s car and her body were found, sources said. Potts’ “deeply flawed” alibi helped lead to murder charges Friday against the 31-year-old man, who once dated Franklin, police said. …

Police sources said Potts had been a suspect since Franklin was reported missing. The two had a heated e-mail exchange the week before she disappeared. Shortly before that, he allegedly threatened her on the telephone, and she filed a police report against him Sept. 7, said Wentworth Area Cmdr. Steve Peterson.

In the months after Franklin’s body was found, Potts made bizarre public pleas on his MySpace page and to the media claiming his innocence. In an interview with the Tribune in November, he denied having anything to do with the slaying.

“What would be the motive for me to do anything to her?” Potts said in the interview. “It’s an unfortunate situation, but it doesn’t mean I should be run through the wringer. I had nothing to do with it.”

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