Hampshire Crime
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Kane County to consider new taxes to fund justice reformAug 25, 2021 1:00 am - Kane County residents may be forced to help pay for criminal justice reform with new taxes at the gas pump and on the sale of some retail items under proposals made by t...
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Kane County sheriff's office investigating fatal dog shooting involving Wayne president's husbandAug 12, 2021 1:00 am - Kane County sheriff's deputies are investigating allegations that the husband of Wayne Village President Eileen Phipps shot and killed a neighbor's dog without justifica...
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Campton Hills man admits to involuntary manslaughter for beating mother to deathJul 28, 2021 1:00 am - A Campton Hills man pleaded guilty Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter, for beating his mother to death with a baseball bat in 2019 when he drunkenly mistook her for a...
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Rockford teen charged after stolen-vehicle chase near Campton HillsJul 28, 2021 1:00 am - A 15-year-old boy from Rockford faces possession of a stolen motor vehicle and aggravated fleeing and eluding police charges, after a police chase near Campton Hills ear...
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How a St. Charles officer's quick actions saved a shooting victim's lifeJul 23, 2021 5:30 am - By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas cops crime@dailyherald.com St. Charles patrol officer Steve Mattas was about halfway through his midnight shift June 27 when a bu...
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Help instead of handcuffs: Kane County launching pre-arrest diversion programJul 16, 2021 5:30 am - By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas copsandcrime@dailyherald.com Anyone who's seen an episode of "Cops" knows how it goes: Police respond to the scene of a crime, fi...
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Case against man accused of trying to kidnap girl in Carol Stream droppedJul 09, 2021 5:30 am - It was a pretty stunning case last summer. A man ran up to a 13-year-old girl, grabbed her around the waist and tried to carry her away on Aug. 7, 2020, near a Carol Str...
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Chicago man pleads guilty to Carpentersville robbery where accomplice was killedJul 08, 2021 1:00 am - A Chicago man has pleaded guilty to robbing a Carpentersville business at gunpoint in September 2016, in a case where another suspect was shot and killed by one of the b...
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Man charged with reckless homicide for West Dundee crashJul 08, 2021 1:00 am - A 19-year-old Carpentersville man has been charged with reckless homicide, accused of killing a man in a car crash May 8 in West Dundee. Bail was set at $100,000 Tuesday...
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Elgin man guilty of sexually abusing childJun 30, 2021 1:00 am - A Kane County jury has found an Elgin man guilty of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. It reached its verdict against Jacob Headtke on June 23, according to court records...