Crime Stories from May 20, 2019 (Change date)
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Battle breaks out for WikiLeaks founder Assange's computersMay 20, 2019 7:00 am - BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - With Julian Assange locked away in a London jail, a new battle has broken out over what may contain some of the WikiLeaks founder's biggest secre...
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Police, prosecutors find fault with legal pot: How do you test drivers for it?May 20, 2019 5:30 am - A plan to legalize recreational marijuana leaves some Illinois lawmakers on a collision course with many cops and prosecutors tasked with catching stoned drivers. "It's ...
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Inverness boy remains hospitalized as investigation into hit-and-run continuesMay 20, 2019 1:00 am - A 13-year-old Inverness boy severely injured in a weekend hit-and-run, then dropped off at his home by an unknown person remains hospitalized in serious but stable condi...
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'Mindless murdering savages': Authorities say border agent used slurs before hitting migrantMay 20, 2019 1:00 am - In November 2017, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Matthew Bowen fumed about the humane treatment his agency was expected to give migrants who had illegally crossed into the cou...
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A jewelry box led police to revisit hundreds of deaths. They may have found a serial killer.May 20, 2019 1:00 am - Phyllis Payne's family thought that she had died of natural causes. There was no reason to be suspicious when the spunky Texas grandmother, who had been spending the las...
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Racist graffiti spray-painted on Wauconda playground equipmentMay 20, 2019 1:00 am - Anti-Semitic and racist graffiti was spray-painted on playground equipment at two Wauconda parks over the weekend. The damage occurred Saturday night or early Sunday at ...
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Drug-induced homicide charges in death of St. Charles-area manMay 20, 2019 1:00 am - An Elgin man is held on $500,000 bail after he was charged with providing a fatal dose of fentanyl-laced heroin to 25-year-old Trevor Brubaker, who was found in his St. ...
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Man gets life in prison for deadly baseball bat attack on wife, stepson in Beach ParkMay 20, 2019 1:00 am - Calling the brutal double murder "despicable" and "shocking," a Lake County judge on Monday sentenced a Beach Park man to life in prison for viciously beating his wife a...
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Suspect charged with murder in Round Lake Beach woman's deathMay 20, 2019 1:00 am - A 20-year-old Round Lake-area man has been charged with murder in the death of 48-year-old Mariana Castro-Tellez last week in Round Lake Beach, the Lake County sheriff's...
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Downers Grove police seeking help in solving April robberyMay 20, 2019 1:00 am - Downers Grove police are asking for the public's help to solve an April 12 armed robbery. Police said they responded around 2 p.m. to the robbery at Android Wireless and...