Hoffman Estates Crime
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Police: Sex offender lied to force his way into Elgin apartmentNov 29, 2018 12:00 am - This article has been updated with additonal information from Elgin police that Onofre lied about his revenge story and there was no evidence the woman's husband was...
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Cook County 'Tails' program offers redemption for inmates, dogsNov 22, 2018 12:00 am - Cookie was a troubled girl. Her large size, mixed background and bad manners made it unlikely anyone was going to adopt her. That was until she and five other unwanted ...
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Police: St. Charles man pistol-whipped couple in Elgin apartmentNov 13, 2018 12:00 am - A 41-year-old St. Charles man is charged with entering an Elgin apartment early Saturday and beating a woman and a man with a gun, causing a shot to be fired. Joshua B. ...
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Man pleads guilty to drug charges after Hoffman Estates traffic stopNov 08, 2018 12:00 am - A Chicago man found with 41 plastic bags of suspected cocaine in his possession when Hoffman Estates police stopped him for a traffic violation last January pleaded guil...
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Chicago's known for Capone, but gangsters held sway in the suburbs and beyondOct 27, 2018 1:00 am - When it came to organized crime in Illinois, Chicago-based Prohibition-era gangsters loomed large during the 1920s and 1930s. Al Capone, Frank Nitti, Lester “Baby Face N...
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How police are using 'ghost cars' to catch traffic violatorsOct 26, 2018 5:00 am - Just in time for Halloween, here's a ghost story. These ghosts haunt many suburban roadways, appearing without warning seemingly out of nowhere, but the only people they...
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$2 million bail for suspect in Elgin shooting that wounded threeOct 23, 2018 1:00 am - An Elgin man charged with shooting and wounding three men early Sunday is held on $2 million bail, and police are still searching for another suspect. Luis K. Mora-Otero...
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Ex-District 211 cashier pleads guilty to stealing more than $80KOct 19, 2018 1:00 am - A former Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 cashier pleaded guilty Friday to stealing more than $80,000 from the district where she worked for 12 years. Denis...
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McMahon bills Cook County almost $50K for Van Dyke prosecutionOct 17, 2018 1:00 am - Kane County State's Attorney Joseph McMahon has billed Cook County for nearly $50,000 for expenses from his more than two years spent as the special prosecutor in Chicag...
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Elgin kidnapping, cigarette torture case set for March trialOct 02, 2018 1:00 am - A Kane County judge Tuesday denied a motion to ban from trial a woman's statements to Elgin police regarding a teen who was kidnapped and tortured with lit cigarettes. M...