Des Plaines Crime
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Mount Prospect man sentenced for sexually abusing teenOct 27, 2014 1:01 am - A 35-year-old Mount Prospect man was sentenced to 19 years in prison for sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Rafael Avila was found guilty of multiple counts of aggravat...
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Trial delayed for Glencoe man involved in Lincolnshire crash that killed Wheeling womanOct 27, 2014 1:01 am - The trial for a man accused of driving while intoxicated during a crash in Lincolnshire that killed a Wheeling woman was delayed Monday due to medical issues, authoritie...
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Northwest suburban police blotterOct 24, 2014 11:00 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Bloomingdale teen sentenced for summer 2013 'crime wave'Oct 24, 2014 12:00 pm - The first member of what DuPage County Judge John Kinsella called a “two-man crime wave” that preyed on suburban businesses last summer, is headed to prison. Nicholas Pa...
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Des Plaines man sentenced in murder-for-hire plotOct 24, 2014 1:01 am - A 51-year-old Des Plaines man was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison after pleading guilty in July to attempting to hire a hitman to kill his estranged wife and h...
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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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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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Des Plaines man gets probation for 2005 batteryOct 21, 2014 1:01 am - A Des Plaines man pleaded guilty Tuesday to attacking a 7-old-girl nine years ago. In exchange for his guilty plea, Gabriel Torres, 59, was sentenced to two years proba...
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Mount Prospect man pleads guilty to sexual assaultOct 21, 2014 1:01 am - A Mount Prospect man pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually assaulting a young girl five years ago. In exchange for pleading guilty to predatory criminal sexual assault, Max...
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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...