Des Plaines Crime
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Man gets 10 years for selling heroin near Elgin parkNov 01, 2012 5:23 pm - A 37-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for trying to sell $1,500 worth of heroin to an undercover cop near a park in Elgin in 2011, authorities s...
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Preckwinkle shoots down ammo tax planOct 31, 2012 5:15 pm - A proposed 5-cent tax on every bullet sold in Cook County has been dropped by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. The ammo tax will not be in next year’s propo...
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10 catalytic converters stolen from U-Haul lots in Northwest suburbsOct 25, 2012 3:43 pm - Catalytic converter thieves continued to strike in the Northwest suburbs this week. Overnight Monday, thieves struck U-Haul lots in Des Plaines and Mount Prospect. They ...
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Northwest suburban police blotterOct 25, 2012 2:12 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Northwest suburban police blotterOct 23, 2012 4:08 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Court: Criminal evidence need not match confessionOct 18, 2012 4:08 pm - SPRINGFIELD — A confession in a criminal case must be backed up by independent evidence, but that evidence doesn’t need to match the confession detail for detail, the Il...
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Northwest suburban police blotterOct 18, 2012 1:24 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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I-290 traffic stop leads to drug chargesOct 16, 2012 2:21 pm - A Chicago man, stopped by police on eastbound I-290 for trying to cross several lanes of traffic, faces charges after more than $13,000 worth of drugs were discovered in...
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Woman in Des Plaines tricks taxi drivers out of faresOct 16, 2012 11:33 am - A woman in Des Plaines has been using cabs to visit Walgreens stores scattered around the suburbs, running up hundreds of dollars in unpaid taxi bills in the process. Ar...
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Teller threatened with death in failed Des Plaines bank robberyOct 16, 2012 10:52 am - A robber threatened to kill a teller at a Des Plaines bank Sunday, but in the end left without any money, police said. A man, between 30 and 35 years of age, 5-foot-8 an...