Des Plaines Crime
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Stolen checks cashed for $5,000, Des Plaines police sayAug 02, 2024 12:14 pm - Eight checks were stolen out of a Des Plaines resident’s mailbox and cashed for about $5,000, police said Friday.
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Des Plaines car dealership burglarizedJul 31, 2024 1:55 pm - A Des Plaines car dealership was burglarized this week.
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Motorcyclist killed in hit-and-run crash in Des PlainesJul 28, 2024 8:13 am - A 31-year-old Glen Ellyn man was killed in a hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning in Des Plaines, police said.
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Would-be Chicago bomber resentenced to 27 years after original term deemed too lenientJul 19, 2024 2:44 pm - A Hillside man was re-sentenced to 27 years in federal prison Friday after authorities said he attempted to detonate a 1,000-pound bomb outside a Chicago bar in 2012.
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Woman charged with reckless homicide, DUI in fatal wrong-way I-90 crashJul 12, 2024 7:20 pm - A 21-year-old Chicago woman is facing homicide and DUI charges following a wrong-way, two-vehicle crash on Interstate 90 near Rosemont Wednesday that killed a Vernon Hills man.
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Sentenced to life for gruesome Barrington killing, he’s now free at 49. Here’s whyJul 11, 2024 3:49 pm - Less than three decades after he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for a grisly suburban murder, Paul Modrowski quietly left the Stateville Correctional Center a free man last week. The release of the 49-year-old convicted of murdering a man found decapitated in Barrington, and the reasons for it, raise complicated questions about equal justice, rehabilitation, disability bias and survivors’ rights.
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Bartlett man convicted in beating of grocery bagger charged anew for attacking neighborJul 09, 2024 4:42 pm - Police arrested a Bartlett man Monday on charges of assault, battery and resisting arrest after responding to a fight with a neighbor last month.
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Des Plaines house hit by gunfire, no one hurtJul 05, 2024 10:40 am - Someone in a moving SUV shot at a woman in Des Plaines early Friday.
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Mount Prospect police nab two boys after park vandalizedJul 03, 2024 7:09 pm - Two 14-year-old boys were referred to the Mount Prospect Police Department Juvenile Diversion program after authorities said they were caught with spray paint shortly after a park was vandalized.
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A ‘disastrous decision’ or the right one? Chicago-area lawmakers and candidates are dividedJul 01, 2024 5:38 pm - Democratic lawmakers and Republican congressional candidates had very different takes on Monday’s ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on presidential power.