Elgin Crime
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Leader in Elgin kidnapping, cigarette tattoo torture gets 16½ years in prisonJun 06, 2018 1:00 am - A 20-year-old who authorities said led a scheme in which a teen was kidnapped in Elgin and held overnight while cigarettes were used to burn her shoulder tattoo pleaded ...
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Attorney: Elgin police shooting 'tragic, unjustified and unconstitutional'Jun 06, 2018 1:00 am - A federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of a woman shot and killed by Elgin police states officers knew she was having a mental health crisis and used excessi...
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Agencies chip in after Kane County loses grant, victim advocatesJun 05, 2018 1:00 am - If it takes a village to raise a child, then perhaps it takes a county to provide services to crime victims. In the months after the Kane County state's attorney's offic...
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Family of Geneva teen killed in fiery DUI crash sues friend who was drivingJun 05, 2018 1:00 am - A wrongful-death lawsuit has been filed against a 20-year-old Geneva man accused of DUI in an October 2017 crash in St. Charles Township that killed his friend, Nicholas...
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Blood found, still no arrests two years after South Elgin teen vanishesJun 04, 2018 5:30 am - Two years after a South Elgin teenager disappeared, newly released documents reveal police found her blood on a neighbor's trash can and have long suspected someone murd...
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Two charged in May 29 shooting, marijuana robbery in ElginJun 04, 2018 1:00 am - Two people have been charged in connection with a May 29 home invasion to rob a man of an ounce of marijuana on Elgin's near west side, according to authorities and cour...
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Political strategist charged with domestic batteryJun 04, 2018 1:00 am - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Lawsuit filed against man's estate for crash that killed Elgin womanJun 01, 2018 1:00 am - Relatives of an Elgin woman killed in a fiery crash last year in Wheaton by a man who authorities said was going 135 mph are suing his estate. Brian Thunderkick, 62, of ...
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Lawsuit: U-46, Elgin school negligent in seizure death of 5th-graderMay 31, 2018 1:00 am - Parents of a fifth-grade boy who died last year at Highland Elementary School in Elgin are suing the school and Elgin Area School District U-46, alleging staff members w...
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Fox Valley police reportsMay 31, 2018 1:00 am - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.