Elk Grove Village Crime
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Stolen checks cashed for $5,000, Des Plaines police sayAug 02, 2024 12:14 pm - Eight checks were stolen out of a Des Plaines resident’s mailbox and cashed for about $5,000, police said Friday.
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Des Plaines car dealership burglarizedJul 31, 2024 1:55 pm - A Des Plaines car dealership was burglarized this week.
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Motorcyclist killed in hit-and-run crash in Des PlainesJul 28, 2024 8:13 am - A 31-year-old Glen Ellyn man was killed in a hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning in Des Plaines, police said.
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Schaumburg man charged in connection with shooting of tree-trimmer denied pretrial releaseJul 26, 2024 4:41 pm - The Schaumburg man accused of shooting a tree-trimmer Wednesday afternoon and holding police at bay for hours before surrendering was denied pretrial release in court Fri...
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Man charged in Schaumburg shooting; victim remains in serious conditionJul 25, 2024 11:43 pm - A Schaumburg man accused of shooting a tree-trimmer Wednesday after complaining about noise now is facing charges, officials announced late Thursday.
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Travelers warned about rise of passport application scamsJul 22, 2024 4:15 pm - U.S. passport processors in Schaumburg Township and Hoffman Estates say would-be international travelers recently have fallen victim to scammers who charged them to download free application forms or collected their personal information.
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Would-be Chicago bomber resentenced to 27 years after original term deemed too lenientJul 19, 2024 2:44 pm - A Hillside man was re-sentenced to 27 years in federal prison Friday after authorities said he attempted to detonate a 1,000-pound bomb outside a Chicago bar in 2012.
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Schaumburg man facing weapons charges after 5-vehicle crash in MayJul 12, 2024 7:40 pm - A 20-year-old Schaumburg man has been charged in connection with a five-vehicle crash in Palatine on May 9 that followed reports of people in an SUV pointing handguns at fellow motorists.
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Sentenced to life for gruesome Barrington killing, he’s now free at 49. Here’s whyJul 11, 2024 3:49 pm - Less than three decades after he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for a grisly suburban murder, Paul Modrowski quietly left the Stateville Correctional Center a free man last week. The release of the 49-year-old convicted of murdering a man found decapitated in Barrington, and the reasons for it, raise complicated questions about equal justice, rehabilitation, disability bias and survivors’ rights.
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Bartlett man convicted in beating of grocery bagger charged anew for attacking neighborJul 09, 2024 4:42 pm - Police arrested a Bartlett man Monday on charges of assault, battery and resisting arrest after responding to a fight with a neighbor last month.