Batavia Crime
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Authorities: NIU student from Batavia was using AI to create fake nude images of former classmatesJun 05, 2025 8:47 am - A Northern Illinois University student was charged this week after police searched his dorm room in DeKalb and allegedly found more than 20,000 images depicting child sexual abuse on his electronics, many were digitally faked images of former Batavia classmates.
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18-year-old charged with trying to kill elderly relativeJun 02, 2025 1:06 pm - An 18-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder, accused of attacking an elderly relative in Big Rock.
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Two charged with hate crime in beating of woman at Carpentersville McDonald’sMay 27, 2025 5:35 pm - Two people are now charged with committing a hate crime, days after an attack on a woman authorities say was committed because of her sexual orientation.
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Police say attackers called her a slur. Why aren’t the suspects charged with a hate crime?May 23, 2025 5:15 am - A young woman was badly beaten May 13 at a Carpentersville restaurant, after police said her attackers called her a derogatory name based on her sexual orientation. The suspects have not been charged with a hate crime.
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‘Education and enforcement’: Why you can expect to see more police on Route 59 todayMay 09, 2025 5:30 am - Police departments across the suburbs — from Wauconda up north to Naperville down south and nearly everywhere in between — are teaming up for a regional traffic safety initiative all day Friday along the Route 59 corridor.
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Judge changes mind, orders child sex abuse defendant be detained pretrialMay 01, 2025 4:53 pm - A Kane County judge changed his mind Thursday and ordered that a Montgomery man charged with child sex crimes be detained pretrial.
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Kane County specialty courts participants use art to tell their storiesApr 21, 2025 1:41 pm - The artwork of participants in Kane County’s four specialty courts filled the jury lounge at the Judicial Center in St. Charles last week, many pieces telling their lives’ journeys.
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Driver in fatal 2022 Halloween bus crash sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prisonApr 17, 2025 8:49 pm - The driver of a vehicle that struck a school bus, killing two of his friends and severely injuring a third, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison Thursday.
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DeKalb man charged with unlawful possession of weapon, cannabis in Kane CountyApr 16, 2025 5:59 pm - A DeKalb man was charged after cannabis and a gun were found in his vehicle during a traffic stop in Kaneville Township last month.
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‘It’s all my fault’: Sentencing begins for driver in crash that killed 2 of his friendsApr 16, 2025 5:30 pm - A sentencing hearing for a man who killed two of his friends when he slammed into the rear of a stopped school bus began with testimony about how he pleaded with deputies at the scene to take him to jail because “I did this. I killed them. I did this. It's all my fault.”