Des Plaines Crime
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Animal hoarding: When 'compassion' can become a crimeFeb 22, 2014 10:00 pm - Several years ago, David Skeberdis found two abandoned parakeets while installing computers at O'Hare International Airport. He decided to rescue the birds. A few weeks ...
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Murder trial begins for South suburban businessmanFeb 21, 2014 12:01 am - A South suburban businessman's trial on charges he killed his wife in September 2010 has started. Prosecutors accuse 63-year-old Allan Kustok of Orland Park of shooting ...
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Elgin cocaine dealer convicted, faces prisonFeb 21, 2014 12:01 am - A 35-year-old Elgin man faces six to 30 years in prison after a jury convicted him this week of coordinating three cocaine sales in October 2012 near an Elgin park. Lade...
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Police: Evanston teen charged with stealing car with boy insideFeb 21, 2014 12:01 am - An 18-year-old teenager faces felony charges after police said he stole an Audi with a 5-year-old Park Ridge boy sleeping in the back seat earlier this week. A Cook Coun...
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Ex-cop Mandell found guilty of one kidnapping-murder plotFeb 21, 2014 12:01 am - A federal jury Friday found Steven Mandell of Buffalo Grove guilty of a grisly plot to kidnap, torture and kill a suburban businessman, but acquitted him on other charge...
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Murder trial delayed after attorney slips on iceFeb 21, 2014 12:00 am - A South suburban businessman's murder trial has been delayed after a defense attorney slipped on ice outside the Bridgeview courthouse and was injured. Orland Park busin...
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Buffalo Grove man testifies in federal murder-for-hire caseFeb 20, 2014 12:01 am - Steven Mandell of Buffalo Grove told a federal jury Thursday that his recorded conversations about torturing, killing and dismembering a suburban businessmen were all fa...
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Northwest suburban police blotterFeb 20, 2014 12:01 am - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Suburban men charged with damaging Trump TowerFeb 19, 2014 12:00 am - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Scammers use lottery claim to steal from Mt. Prospect womanFeb 18, 2014 12:01 am - Mount Prospect police are seeking two people who scammed an 82-year-old Mount Prospect woman out of money with false claims of a winning lottery ticket. On Oct. 10, 2013...