Batavia Crime
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$1 million bail for man accused of targeting girls on FacebookOct 10, 2013 11:06 am - “If anyone asks, I’m 15.” That’s what Naperville sex offender Eric Hakala, 37, told one of several underage girls while posing as a St. Charles East High School student...
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Naperville police ask parents to check Facebook contactsOct 09, 2013 6:00 pm - Naperville police are asking parents in the Oswego, Batavia and St. Charles area to review their children's Facebook friends to see if they have been in contact with a 3...
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Bail reduced for teen accused of Elgin brick attackOct 09, 2013 5:26 pm - A judge Wednesday halved the bail amount for a Hanover Park teen accused of beating a 42-year-old man with a landscape brick in downtown Elgin last month and stealing hi...
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Elgin man accused of raping woman in church parking lotOct 09, 2013 5:08 pm - A 53-year-old man is charged with sexually assaulting an autistic, mentally disabled woman in a van in an Elgin church parking lot, an act that resulted in hre pregnancy...
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Elgin woman accused of allowing child sexual abuseOct 08, 2013 4:54 pm - A 32-year-old Elgin woman has been charged with permitting the sexual abuse of a child, according to Kane County court records. Amanda J. Alder, of the 100 block of Nort...
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Tri-Cities police reportsOct 07, 2013 6:45 pm - Kane County Ÿ More than $300 damage was done to a door at a vacant home on the 33W500 block of Route 64 near St. Charles after someone broke in and littered the hom...
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Swiped iPad in Batavia returned after video posted on FacebookOct 07, 2013 2:37 pm - A stolen iPad was returned to its owner, about a day after it was stolen, thanks to the shaming power of social media. The Batavia Police Department posted a 35-second v...
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Carpentersville police: Man beaten, robbed of iPhone 5 at gunpointOct 02, 2013 4:48 pm - A 36-year-old Elgin man has been charged with robbing a man of his iPhone 5 over the weekend and then beating him in a stairwell at a Carpentersville apartment complex. ...
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Life sentence for ‘career’ Elgin criminalOct 02, 2013 4:42 pm - A 47-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after being convicted of an October 2011 armed robbery of a Little Caesars Pizza on Elgin’s near west side. I...
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Counselor at youth center accused of having sex with detaineeSep 30, 2013 4:30 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.