Elmhurst Crime
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Former DuPage forest preserve exec to be sentencedDec 03, 2015 12:00 am - A DuPage County judge Thursday reaffirmed his ruling from October when he found former DuPage County Forest Preserve District information technology manager David Tepper...
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Bail set for West Chicago man charged with killing cousinNov 29, 2015 12:00 am - A DuPage County judge set bail Sunday at $2 million for a 19-year-old man accused in the fatal shooting of his cousin near West Chicago earlier this month. James Hernand...
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Teen charged in Villa Park shootingNov 25, 2015 12:00 am - A Villa Park teen faces criminal charges in connection with a shooting in Villa Park that left two men injured. Bruce Berrier, 16, of the 900 block of West North Avenue,...
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Burr Ridge real estate broker guilty on all theft countsNov 23, 2015 12:00 am - In the time leading up to his arrest, after confessing to co-workers to stealing potential homebuyers' earnest money, Harry "Bud" Simons told an investigator he knew the...
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Man gets six months in jail for blackmailing women for sexNov 23, 2015 12:00 am - An 18-year-old Aurora man who threatened to distribute nude photos of two women unless they had sex with him has been sentenced to 180 days in jail. Maxwell T. Melgar, o...
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Police investigating murder near West ChicagoNov 21, 2015 12:00 am - The DuPage County sheriff's office is investigating the murder of a 27-year-old man at the intersection of Highlake and DuPage avenues just outside West Chicago. Police ...
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Closing arguments to begin Monday in Burr Ridge real estate agent's trialNov 20, 2015 12:00 am - "I'm guilty. There's no way I can fight this. I did the wrong thing for the right reasons." DuPage County state's attorney investigator Dave Zdan said former Burr Ridge ...
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Vehicle theft charges also lodged against Aurora murder suspectNov 19, 2015 12:00 am - An 18-year-old from Aurora charged in a Nov. 7 murder during a botched robbery also has been charged with stealing a truck in early October, according to police and cour...
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Sexual abuse lawsuit names two former Lombard priestsNov 19, 2015 12:00 am - A former member of Lombard's St. Pius X Catholic Church is suing the Diocese of Joliet and two former priests claiming he was sexually abused as an 11-year-old in 1976. ...
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Prosecutors: Burr Ridge broker accused of theft risked losing franchiseNov 19, 2015 12:00 am - Real estate broker Harry "Bud" Simons was late paying his monthly stipends to RE/MAX corporate offices several times and was threatened with having his franchise yanked ...