Batavia Crime
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14 Randall Road businesses burglarized early Wednesday in Batavia, GenevaMar 01, 2023 12:00 am - Geneva and Batavia police are investigating a burglary spree that happened early Wednesday morning along Randall Road. Twelve businesses in Geneva and two in Batavia wer...
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Sleepy Hollow man pleads guilty to armed violence in gun, drugs caseFeb 09, 2023 12:00 am - A Sleepy Hollow man who had faced gun and drug charges pleaded guilty Thursday to armed violence. Petro Evaristo-Aguilar, 23, of the 900 block of Willow Lane, also plead...
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Man charged after threatening to hurt himself with scissors at Kane County courthouseFeb 01, 2023 12:00 am - A Batavia man was arrested Wednesday at the Kane County Judicial Center in St. Charles after authorities say he grabbed a pair of scissors at the public defender's offic...
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Batavia police investigating west-side car burglariesJan 26, 2023 12:00 am - Batavia police are investigating burglaries to unlocked vehicles that occurred between 4 and 5 a.m. Thursday. Vehicles on 0-100 block of South Mallory Avenue, the 0-100...
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Guns in peanut butter and a whole chicken: What TSA agents found during a record-breaking 2022Jan 20, 2023 4:00 am - We all know you can't bring a gun aboard a commercial flight, but that didn't stop a record 6,542 failed attempts last year, according to the Transportation Security Adm...
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Elgin man arrested after police chase, crash in St. CharlesJan 20, 2023 12:00 am - An Elgin man has been charged after a Friday morning police chase ended with a crash in St. Charles. Quinelle M. Franklin, 32, of the 1600 block of Mark Avenue, is charg...
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Fentanyl use in illicit drug supply continues to fuel rise in fatal Kane County overdosesJan 19, 2023 12:00 am - The rate of opioid deaths in Kane County doubled in the last decade, and county officials are trying to determine a multipronged approach to bring the numbers down. Mich...
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Wisconsin man arrested on drug, gun charges on I-90Jan 17, 2023 12:00 am - Kane County sheriff's detectives investigating drug trafficking along the Jane Addams Tollway arrested a Wisconsin man on weapons and drug charges Sunday, authorities sa...
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Suburban cold cases solved and unsolved: How DNA has played a role so farJan 13, 2023 4:00 am - Despite thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews and untold hours of investigation, it took nearly a decade - and a couple of strokes of luck - for police to arrest th...
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Sheriffs draw lines at what they will - and will not - enforce with new weapons lawJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg had a message for gun owners concerned about Illinois' new ban on the purchase, sale and manufacture of some high-powered weapons and l...