Island Lake Crime
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10 dogs taken from Vernon Hills house remain with animal controlMar 20, 2019 1:00 am - The 10 dogs removed from a Vernon Hills house March 9 after a police search involving an unrelated matter remain in the custody of Lake County Animal Care and Control an...
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Lake County warrants team captures two fugitivesMar 20, 2019 1:00 am - The Lake County Sheriff's Office Warrants Team and the U.S. Marshals Service Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force apprehended two fugitives on Tuesday, authorities s...
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Beach Park man guilty of double murder in bat beating caseMar 18, 2019 1:00 am - It took less than an hour for a Lake County jury to find Armando Trejo Jr. guilty of first-degree murder in the bludgeoning deaths of his wife and stepson. The jury als...
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How Lake County is working with schools to save time, lives in crisis situationsMar 15, 2019 5:30 am - When it comes to protecting students in a school crisis, every second counts. That's what officials in the Lake County sheriff's office and Mundelein-based Fremont Eleme...
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Officials hope decrease in opioid deaths continues in McHenry, suburban CookMar 14, 2019 5:30 am - It's a result McHenry County officials hope will continue: fewer opioid overdose deaths in 2018 than 2017, the first such decrease in four years. The county recorded 44 ...
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'Everything happened so fast': Lake County man testifies during his murder trialMar 14, 2019 1:00 am - Armando Trejo told the Lake County jury at his murder trial Thursday that “everything happened so fast” and “I couldn't think clearly” the night he repeatedly struck his...
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First responders testify about scene after Beach Park baseball bat killingsMar 13, 2019 1:00 am - Armando Trejo was calm while locked in handcuffs moments after a Lake County sheriff's deputy discovered two people in the house had been fatally beaten with an aluminum...
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Trejo murder trial begins with dueling versions of what prompted attackMar 12, 2019 1:00 am - Fearing his wife would leave after she discovered his infidelity days earlier, Armando Trejo repeatedly struck her and her son with an aluminum baseball bat, prosecutors...
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Man who admits beating wife, stepson with baseball bat goes on trial todayMar 11, 2019 5:30 am - Armando Trejo admits to using an aluminum baseball bat to beat his wife and stepson to death in their Lake County home in November 2015. But when he goes to trial today ...
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If convicted, man charged with killing McHenry County deputy could be sentenced to deathMar 11, 2019 1:00 am - The 39-year-old man charged with fatally shooting McHenry County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Keltner was wheeled into federal court Monday and told he could face the death pe...