Small fire put out at trucking company, then CEO is found stabbed to death, IL cops say
Update: Josif Suclea, 52, from Scottsdale, Arizona, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on March 15, Crestwood police said. Suclea was an employee at the company, police said.
The original story continues below.
Heavy smoke flooded a building belonging to a trucking company after a small fire was put out. Amid the thick, dark fumes, according to the police, was the CEO’s body.
An investigation revealed that Dane Koletski, the CEO of ATG Truckload in Crestwood, was stabbed to death on the afternoon of March 5.
McClatchy News reached out to ATG Truckload but did not immediately receive a response.
An autopsy determined he had been stabbed in the neck with a sharp object, and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled his death a homicide, police said in a March 7 news release.
“Dane was a great and loving father of Kiko, son, and a brother,” Koletski’s friend wrote in a GoFundMe. “His generosity, friendship, and kindness are well known among the Macedonian and Serbian community and Church.”
One of Koletski’s employees is suspected of targeting the CEO and killing him, police said.
The suspect, who police did not identify, was arrested about 150 miles away in Holland, Michigan, on a murder warrant and is set to be extradited back to Illinois, according to the news release.
Crestwood is in the Chicagoland area and near the southside of the city.
This story was originally published March 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM with the headline "Small fire put out at trucking company, then CEO is found stabbed to death, IL cops say."
