Hanover Park Crime
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‘Disgusting’ images of child sexual abuse prompt judges to deny pretrial release in separate casesAug 03, 2024 2:04 pm - DuPage County judges last week denied pretrial releases for two men charged in unrelated child pornography felony cases that authorities characterized as “revolting.”
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Man convicted of selling guns without serial numbers to undercover officerAug 02, 2024 11:55 am - A Hanover Park man has been found guilty of selling guns without serial numbers, and a machine gun conversion device, to an undercover officer.
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Lombard murder victim identifiedJul 26, 2024 4:18 pm - The DuPage County coroner has released the name of a man shot to death earlier this week in unincorporated Lombard. The victim is Alaa Ghnimat, age 38. The DuPage County ...
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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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26-year prison sentence for Schaumburg man who robbed two phone stores at gunpointJul 19, 2024 6:01 pm - A former Schaumburg man was sentenced to 26 years in prison after pleading guilty to armed robbery of two DuPage County wireless phone stores.
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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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What’s behind one suburb’s 184% increase in DUI arrests? ‘Unwavering commitment’Jul 18, 2024 5:42 pm - West Chicago increased its focus on arresting drunk drivers last year. The result? Nearly triple the arrests in 2023 compared to 2022.
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Woman gets probation after pleading guilty to felony theftJul 12, 2024 7:05 pm - A DuPage County judge has sentenced a Warrenville woman to two years of probation for fraudulently collecting more than $20,000 through a Paycheck Protection Program loan...
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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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Aurora man charged in connection with Naperville shootingJul 10, 2024 4:33 pm - According to Naperville police, an Aurora man robbed a woman before shooting her in the chest and forcing her out of his car in late June.