Within months, authorities would announce that Gliniewicz took his own life, carefully staging the scene to make it appear a homicide. They said he did it to try to cover up the thousands of dollars he had stolen from the Explorers youth policing program he had run in town for years. A text later recovered from his phone showed he inquired about meeting with a gang member to discuss putting a hit on the village administrator. Personnel and court records that were released indicated he had turned up drunk in public and had sexual relations with a police department subordinate who later sued for sexual harassment, though the case was dropped.