Elgin Crime
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Police: Domestic violence response shifts to match situationJan 03, 2017 12:00 am - Standard operating procedure is hard to define for something as situational as a police response to domestic violence calls, such as the one that came early Monday near ...
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Cook County Jail population down about 700 peopleJan 02, 2017 10:00 pm - Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart released a year-end report on the Cook County Jail, highlighting efforts to reduce incarceration of people for lower-level, nonviolent of...
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Major court and crime stories last year in the Northwest suburbsJan 02, 2017 5:00 am - Once again, disgraced Illinois politicians topped the list of Cook County's noteworthy court and crime stories of the year. His reputation and legacy in tatters after ...
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Fox Valley's top stories of 2016Dec 23, 2016 4:30 am - Political battles in Kane County, a new chairman in McHenry County, construction projects throughout the area and some leadership changes at the municipal level were amo...
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Authorities perplexed by discovery of decapitated goatsDec 16, 2016 4:33 am - Was it a strange religious ritual? A bizarre case of littering? A Cubs fan's twisted celebration of breaking a 108-year-old curse? Arlington Heights police aren't quite ...
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McMahon: Sex trafficking convictions help address problemDec 13, 2016 12:00 am - Prison sentences recently doled out for three men convicted of plotting to have sex with minor girls at an Aurora hotel show Kane County authorities are doing their part...
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Elgin police arrest third suspect in Hoffman Estates shootingDec 13, 2016 12:00 am - An Elgin man wanted in connection with a Dec. 1 shooting near a Hoffman Estates sports bar was arrested Tuesday morning, police said. Ryan Ratliff, 26, was captured aft...
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6 years in prison for Elgin man who raped girl at parkDec 13, 2016 12:00 am - An Elgin man has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to raping a teenage girl he knew at an Elgin park in July 2015. Jesus Vazquez-Zamora, 25, of...
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Escort: East Dundee murder suspect paid her $450 an hourDec 13, 2016 12:00 am - Richard Schmelzer first met Carmen Ward-Hagains in November 2013 at a Texas apartment when he paid for sex with her and another escort who considered him to be a trusted...