Algonquin Crime
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Boy heard scream, bangs as wife, girl killed in Crystal LakeAug 04, 2017 1:00 am - Eleven-year-old Juan Viveros heard a scream and several bangs Thursday night while playing at his friend's Crystal Lake home that he later would learn were the sounds of...
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State wants to enlist truck drivers to fight human traffickingJul 28, 2017 5:30 am - The nation was horrified this week at the news that 10 people died and dozens more were injured in a sweltering truck trailer in San Antonio. The driver said he didn't k...
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Bail hiked for former Aurora minister to stop deportation before sex abuse trialJul 28, 2017 1:00 am - The U.S. Justice Department's new policy of seeking to deport noncitizens who have pending criminal cases has prompted a Kane County judge to increase bond for a second ...
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$2M bail set for 2 charged with heroin, cocaine conspiracy in Kane, Kendall countiesJul 27, 2017 1:00 am - Two men have been arrested and charged in a conspiracy to transport and distribute heroin and cocaine in the Kane and Kendall County areas. Gabriel Aguilar-Velez, 28, an...
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State's attorney says he's grateful for jury that acquitted Daniel Rak of murderJul 27, 2017 1:00 am - Kane County State's Attorney Joe McMahon said he is not disappointed, but grateful, for the jury that found a 31-year-old man innocent of the first-degree murder of his ...
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Jury acquits son accused of killing father in Burlington TownshipJul 25, 2017 1:00 am - A Kane County jury took less than three hours Tuesday to acquit a man of the most serious charges filed after the death of his father in February 2016. Daniel R. Rak wa...
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Delnor nurses allege sheriff was told inmate wasn't being guarded properlyJul 24, 2017 1:00 am - Delnor Hospital workers complained at least once to the hospital's security company and to the Kane County sheriff's department that jail inmate Tywon Salters was not be...
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Attorney: Investigators rushed to judgment in Burlington man's deathJul 24, 2017 1:00 am - Defense attorneys for a man accused of murdering his father last year in his Burlington Township home argued Monday that investigators made quick and erroneous assumptio...
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Algonquin flooding a reminder of tragedy for village's police forceJul 21, 2017 5:30 am - Watching the floodwaters rise in downtown in Algonquin this week got us thinking about one of the most tragic events in the village's history: the drowning of veteran po...
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Police investigating message on pizza box sent to jurors in murder trialJul 21, 2017 1:00 am - A message in a pizza box threw the Daniel Rak murder trial for a loop Friday. Fifteen jurors were questioned, individually, about whether seeing the phrase “They're inno...