Downers Grove Crime
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Suburban police no longer feeling 'helpless' against heroinOct 28, 2014 5:30 am - Danielle Nicholas was employed, living in her own apartment and “going places.” Now she's a photo on a Lake County cop's desk. Round Lake Park Police Chief George Filenk...
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Batavia man gets 16 years in prison after $2.7 million pot bustOct 28, 2014 1:01 am - As the economy crumbled in 2007 and 2008, so did Richard Ecklund's flooring business and his ability to pay his mortgage. So the 50-year-old Batavia man turned to dealin...
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Addison robbery gets Chicago man 7 years in prisonOct 27, 2014 1:01 am - A Chicago man who pleaded guilty to the Dec. 20, 2011, armed robbery of an Addison clothing boutique had two more years tacked onto a prison stint he is already serving ...
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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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$5 million bail for Westmont man in synagogue vandalismOct 24, 2014 1:00 am - A 40-year-old Westmont man is being held on $5 million bail and is charged with hate crimes related to vandalism at a Lombard synagogue. John White, of 13 Tartan Lakes D...
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Former Naperville adoption agency CEO gets 54 months in prison for theftOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - The former director of a Naperville adoption agency was sentenced to 4½ years in prison Thursday for stealing more than $100,000 from the organization, Robert Geniesse, ...
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Jail time and probation for Ray Graham theftsOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - A Chicago woman was sentenced to a combination of jail and probation for stealing Illinois Link Cards from two disabled residents of Lisle's Ray Graham Association. Naka...
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Carol Stream man gets 35 years for sexual assaultsOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - A DuPage County judge Thursday sentenced a Carol Stream man to 35 years in prison for sexually abusing and taking lewd photographs of his longtime girlfriend's young dau...
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Truck driver's statements can be used in trial on I-88 crashOct 20, 2014 1:01 am - Statements a Hanover Park truck driver gave police just hours after a January crash along I-88 in which he is accused of killing Wheeling tollway worker Vincent Petrella...
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Ex-Schaumburg cop's trial in drug-skimming case delayedOct 17, 2014 1:01 am - A trial date has been pushed back for a former Schaumburg police officer accused with two others of skimming drugs from police seizures and then using an informant to se...