Deerfield Crime
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Inmate charged with murder just before he was to be releasedOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - On the day he was scheduled to leave prison after serving a five-year sentence for burglary, a suburban man found out he was charged in the stabbing death of a woman 12 ...
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Man held on $50,000 bail for Fox Lake bank theft WednesdayOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - A Fox Lake man is held in Lake County jail on $50,000 bail for entering a Grand Avenue bank, tossing a plastic bag at the teller and telling the victim to "fill it up." ...
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Search in serial killing case comes up emptyOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - Authorities who learned that a man who confessed to killing several women whose bodies were found in abandoned buildings in Indiana may have traveled to the South suburb...
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More time needed in latest Lake County DNA caseOct 21, 2014 1:01 am - Attorneys continue to wait on DNA test results to determine if a Chicago man was wrongly convicted in a grisly January 2000 attack on a North Chicago man. During a brief...
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Scheme to smuggle marijuana into jail uncoveredOct 21, 2014 1:01 am - A Cook County jail guard, a Chicago police dispatcher and three inmates have been charged in what federal authorities say was a scheme to stuff marijuana and other contr...
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Zion teen sentenced to 23 years for killing infant sonOct 20, 2014 1:01 am - A Zion teen was sentenced to 23 years in prison for killing his 5-month-old son when the child wouldn't stop crying. Victor Salinas-Corona, 18, must serve 100 percent o...
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Police: Elgin woman starved dog on apartment balconyOct 20, 2014 1:01 am - A 24-year-old Elgin woman is accused of leaving two small dogs on her apartment balcony for a week, causing one of them to die of starvation, according to an Elgin polic...
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Antioch man apologizes, pleads guilty to killing wife, motherOct 20, 2014 1:00 am - An Antioch man apologized Monday for savagely killing his wife with a machete and suffocating his mother in their garden apartment nearly one year ago. Billy Varner, 55,...
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Accused of torturing cousin, man arrested in southwest MichiganOct 17, 2014 1:01 am - A 27-year-old man accused of locking a cousin in a cage, throwing hot wax on him and burning him with a lighter has been arrested in Berrien County, Michigan, Cook Count...
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Ex-Schaumburg cop's trial in drug-skimming case delayedOct 17, 2014 1:01 am - A trial date has been pushed back for a former Schaumburg police officer accused with two others of skimming drugs from police seizures and then using an informant to se...