Hoffman Estates Crime
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Attack on Larkin teacher unprovoked, authorities sayOct 24, 2012 7:08 pm - A 51-year-old science teacher attacked by a student before a class Wednesday at Larkin High School in Elgin is recovering at home with facial contusions and injuries aro...
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South Barrington officer accused of forging painkiller prescriptionsOct 24, 2012 2:53 pm - A South Barrington patrol officer is on paid administrative leave following his arrest on charges of forgery and official misconduct, both Class 3 felonies, and possessi...
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Howard defense seeks to bar dying declarationOct 18, 2012 5:49 pm - Attorneys for D’Andre Howard, charged with the April 2009 slaying of three members of a Hoffman Estates family, are seeking to bar prosecutors from introducing into evid...
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Court: Criminal evidence need not match confessionOct 18, 2012 4:08 pm - SPRINGFIELD — A confession in a criminal case must be backed up by independent evidence, but that evidence doesn’t need to match the confession detail for detail, the Il...
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I-290 traffic stop leads to drug chargesOct 16, 2012 2:21 pm - A Chicago man, stopped by police on eastbound I-290 for trying to cross several lanes of traffic, faces charges after more than $13,000 worth of drugs were discovered in...
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McHenry County couple accused of wake burglaries face new chargesOct 12, 2012 3:58 pm - A Johnsburg husband and wife already being held in Cook County on burglary charges found themselves in even more hot water Friday, after McHenry County police say they c...
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Rockford man charged in stabbing, Huntley cab hijackingOct 12, 2012 8:27 am - A Rockford man has been charged with vehicular hijacking after stabbing a cabdriver in the neck with a pen and swiping his vehicle in Huntley Thursday morning, authoriti...
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Palatine woman accused of stealing $200K from grandmotherOct 11, 2012 7:01 pm - A Palatine woman has been charged with stealing more than $200,000 from her grandmother. Jennifer Curtis, 43, was arrested Wednesday. Bail was set at $100,000, and she i...
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Suspect in Chicago car-bomb plot pleads not guiltyOct 11, 2012 4:59 pm - A West suburban teen has pleaded not guilty to trying to set off what he thought was a car bomb next to a Chicago bar. Dressed in orange jail clothes, Adel Daoud looked...
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Cops search for man in Huntley carjackingOct 11, 2012 2:13 pm - At 9:26 a.m., Huntley police officers responded to a report of a taxi driver who had been hit on the neck and was pushed out of his cab in the parking lot at Prime Outle...