Hoffman Estates Crime
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How’s cashless bail going? Here’s what the data saysApr 25, 2024 4:36 pm - About seven months after Illinois ended cash bail as a key provision of the much-debated SAFE-T Act, fears that it would lead to a surge in freed criminal suspects commit...
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How police, fire departments help first responders cope in the wake of tragediesApr 16, 2024 5:24 pm - Fifteen years ago today, Shelly Engelhardt, her daughter Amanda and son Jeff experienced an unimaginable tragedy when Amanda’s then-boyfriend - in a jealousy-fueled attack - stabbed to death three Engelhardt family members in their Hoffman Estates home. They weren’t the only ones traumatized. The heinous attack also affected first responders, including Kasia Cawley, one of the Hoffman Estates police detectives assigned to the case. “It always stays with you,” said Cawley, now Hoffman Estates chief of police. “You’re never going to forget it.”
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‘Working every day toward forgiveness’: 15 years later, loss remains for Engelhardt familyApr 16, 2024 5:14 pm - Jeff Engelhardt has lived two lives. The first ended 15 years ago when he lost his father, younger sister and maternal grandmother to an unprovoked attack by his older s...
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Cook County jail program is rescuing dogs and detainees. And now it’s expandingMar 21, 2024 5:04 pm - A corrections officer could be heard shouting commands Thursday morning in a concrete yard of Division 19 at the Cook County jail. But the detainees weren’t being bossed...
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Palatine man accused of criminal sexual abuseMar 10, 2024 8:28 pm - A Cook County judge ordered the pretrial detention Sunday of a 40-year-old Palatine man charged with sexually abusing a woman in her home, authorities said. Juan Ramirez-...
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Police: Carpentersville man shot at Hoffman Estates officersMar 06, 2024 7:21 pm - A Carpentersville man is charged with attempted murder and five counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm in connection to allegations he opened fire on Hoffman Estates...
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Man charged in connection with recent gunfire in Hoffman Estates, SchaumburgMar 01, 2024 6:55 pm - Hoffman Estates police Thursday arrested an 18-year-old village resident on charges stemming from two gun-related crimes this week, while another reported firearm dischar...
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Two charged with attempted armed robbery in Hoffman Estates, one of them for earlier crimeFeb 19, 2024 6:10 pm - Two Hoffman Estates men have been charged with an attempted armed robbery Friday in the village, while one of them also was charged with an armed robbery that had occurre...
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Office morale, performance key issues for Democratic Cook Co. state’s attorney candidatesFeb 16, 2024 5:56 pm - Democratic candidates vying to replace Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx cite staffing and morale as key issues facing the next top prosecutor.
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Cook County state’s attorney candidates discuss juvenile crime in Democratic primary debateFeb 09, 2024 11:08 am - Retail theft prosecution and juvenile crime were among the topics retired Illinois Appellate Court Judge Eileen O’Neill Burke and former Cook County prosecutor Clayton Ha...
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