Deerfield Crime
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Cellphone distributor gets 2 years in prison for tax evasionJul 06, 2018 1:00 am - A 53-year-old Highland Park man who pleaded guilty to tax evasion this year was sentenced to two years in prison Friday. Jordan Eckerling once operated a cellular phone ...
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Elgin man who bit off part of finger in fight gets jail, probationJul 02, 2018 1:00 am - An Elgin man accused of biting off part of another man's finger during a fight in late 2017 has been sentenced to jail time, probation and ordered to undergo an evaluati...
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Prosecution witness says Rudd's wife's death was no accidentJun 29, 2018 1:00 am - A former Cook County chief medical examiner testified Friday that Donnie Rudd's second wife was killed by blows to her head, disputing a defense expert's account that sh...
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Rudd's medical expert says wife died from 'internal decapitation'Jun 28, 2018 1:00 am - There was another twist Thursday in the already strange saga of Donnie Rudd, a former attorney accused of killing Noreen Kumeta, his 19-year-old bride of just one month,...
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Pathologist testifies head injury, not broken neck, killed 19-year-old brideJun 27, 2018 1:00 am - Happy and beautiful. That was how Karen Mezera described her older sister Noreen Kumeta on Aug. 18, 1973, the day Noreen married Donnie Rudd, a patent attorney whom she ...
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Prosecutors in murder trial: 19-year-old bride 'a means to an end'Jun 26, 2018 1:00 am - Prosecutors in former suburban lawyer Donnie Rudd's murder trial painted him as a man who married his 19-year-old second wife Noreen Kumeta after a whirlwind courtship, ...
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Why gangs are changing, and what it means for the suburbsJun 22, 2018 5:30 am - A lot has changed since the Chicago Crime Commission published in 2012 its last "Gang Book," the crime-fighting organization's detailed account of the activities and ope...
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Man pleads not guilty to weapons charges in Lake County police confrontationsJun 21, 2018 1:00 am - An Antioch Township man who authorities say was involved in multiple confrontations with police in Gurnee and Antioch pleaded not guilty to weapons violations Thursday. ...
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Lake County chief judge issues alert of jury scamJun 16, 2018 1:00 am - Lake County Chief Judge Jay Ukena Friday issued an alert of a scam where several people were called Thursday by a man pretending to be a Lake County sheriff's deputy say...
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Trump backer to sign thieves: Just pay up to avoid prosecutionJun 15, 2018 5:30 am - Last week, with a high-stakes summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on the horizon and plenty of news coverage in the Daily Herald and elsewhere about an "Impeac...