Downers Grove Crime
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Former DuPage sheriff's official dies two days before trial on misconduct chargesMar 31, 2019 1:00 am - A former longtime dispatch supervisor in the DuPage County sheriff's office, charged in 2017 with official misconduct and public indecency, died last week, two days befo...
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Police: 'Ripper Crew' member registered as sex offender in AuroraMar 31, 2019 1:00 am - A convicted killer and member of the infamous "Ripper Crew" has registered as a sex offender in Aurora after being released from prison Friday, police said Sunday. Thoma...
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He didn't kill anyone, so why does a court say Round Lake man belongs locked up for murder?Mar 29, 2019 5:30 am - Jose Rebollar-Vergara didn't kill anyone. He didn't even know a shooting was about to happen when he and a fellow gang member met up with a teen they mistook for a rival...
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'I hoped this day would never come': Lorry's family 'shaken' as killer is releasedMar 29, 2019 1:00 am - Lorraine Ann "Lorry" Borowski's family members say they are now forced to spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulders after one of the four men convicted ...
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Police: Drunken driver was going 75 in 30 mph zone in Elgin crash that killed twoMar 28, 2019 1:00 am - A Glendale Heights man charged in a March 20 DUI crash in Elgin that killed two people was going more than twice the speed limit and had a blood-alcohol concentration mo...
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Cook County men charged with gunrunning in DuPageMar 28, 2019 1:00 am - Two Cook County men are being held in DuPage County on $250,000 bail, accused by Attorney General Kwame Raoul of dealing in stolen guns. Reynaldo Gomez, 34, of Maywood, ...
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'Ripper Crew' member released from prison this morningMar 28, 2019 1:00 am - One member of the infamous “Ripper Crew,” which committed a string of violent, sexually motivated murders of women in Chicago and the suburbs in the early 1980s, was rel...
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DuPage County judge denies Elgin woman's attempt to withdraw guilty plea in attempted murderMar 27, 2019 1:00 am - A former Elgin woman sentenced to 28 years in prison last month after pleading guilty to attempted murder and aggravated arson will not be allowed to withdraw her plea. ...
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Registered sex offender charged in sexual assault, kidnapping in BloomingdaleMar 25, 2019 1:00 am - A 21-year-old college student, home on spring break, was the victim of a "horrific" kidnapping and sexual assault at the hands of a convicted sex offender who, days earl...
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Fifth and final Wheaton College football player charged in 2016 hazing scandal pleads case down to misdemeanor disorderly conductMar 22, 2019 1:00 am - The case of the fifth and final former Wheaton College football player charged in a nearly 3-year-old hazing scandal that injured a teammate has come to a close, thanks ...