Carpentersville Crime
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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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Elgin man faces child pornography chargesJan 19, 2023 12:00 am - An Elgin man has been charged with possessing and reproducing child pornography. Steven J. Young, 64, of the 0-100 block of Aldine Street, is being held on $100,000 bail...
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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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Elgin police searching for man who made inappropriate comments to middle school girlsJan 19, 2023 12:00 am - Elgin police are investigating after a man reportedly made inappropriate comments to girls walking home from Abbott Middle School. A female student from the Elgin school...
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Driver gets 3 years for crash that killed Hoffman Estates man in West DundeeJan 18, 2023 12:00 am - A Carpentersville man was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for killing a man in a 2021 crash in West Dundee. Dereck Kelly, 20, of the 100 block of Kings Road...
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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...
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Top crime stories of 2022: Mayhem and heartbreak defined the year in suburban crimeJan 12, 2023 5:00 am - A mass shooting on July 4 in Highland Park, during which a lone shooter stood atop a building firing nearly 90 rounds at parade spectators and participants, shocked the ...
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Shots fired down, other serious crime up 6% in ElginJan 12, 2023 12:00 am - Shots fired incidents in Elgin were down, while serious crime overall was up in 2022, according to the police department's newly released annual report. Coming off a 50-...