Des Plaines Crime
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Prosecutors: Men stole more than $5 million from suburban auto loan companyMay 15, 2020 1:00 am - Two executives of an Evanston subprime auto lending company and an accountant are charged with misappropriating $5.3 million from the company, according to a federal ind...
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Prosecutors: Mount Prospect woman intentionally set 2019 apartment fireMay 14, 2020 1:00 am - A Mount Prospect woman was ordered held on $75,000 bail Thursday on charges she set fire to her bed and headboard last year. Marilu Bautista-Romero, 46, is charged wit...
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Elgin man charged with home invasion, pistol whipping man SundayMay 14, 2020 1:00 am - A 21-year-old Elgin man is wanted on charges that he forced his way into an Elgin apartment on Sunday and pistol-whipped a man inside. An arrest warrant has been issued ...
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Kane County courts embrace video technology to move cases forward in COVID eraMay 08, 2020 5:30 am - Today will be a first for Kane County courts: A defendant is expected to plead guilty to a felony charge during a proceeding held via Zoom and accessible to the public t...
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FBI offers reward in Cook County jail escape caseMay 07, 2020 1:00 am - The FBI has offered a reward of up to $2,000 for information leading to the capture of Jahquez Scott, a Cook County jail detainee who authorities say escaped over the we...
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Mount Prospect man charged in car break-insMay 07, 2020 1:00 am - Mount Prospect police say a village resident has been charged in connection with several criminal trespass to vehicle cases. Jamal Perteete, 28, of the 1500 block of Wes...
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Police: Elgin man drives to wrong house, charged with 4th DUIMay 06, 2020 1:00 am - A 48-year-old man was arrested and charged with his fourth DUI last weekend after driving to the wrong Elgin house at 3 a.m. Saturday and banging on a stranger's door, a...
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Long-secret phone bill in Koschman case reveals early calls to Mayor Daley's brotherMay 02, 2020 1:00 am - Sixteen years after then-Mayor Richard M. Daley's nephew Richard J. "R.J." Vanecko threw a punch that cost Mount Prospect resident David Koschman his life, newly release...
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Elgin police: Man faces DUI, gun charges in road rage caseApr 28, 2020 1:00 am - A 33-year-old man is accused of driving drunk and pointing a loaded gun at a man in Elgin during a road rage incident that began in Algonquin, according to Elgin police ...
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Cook County officials: COVID-19 absent in juvenile detaineesApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - None of the 88 general population residents selected for testing at Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, health c...