Mount Prospect Crime
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Man charged with threatening to shoot Elk Grove High students during walkoutMar 15, 2018 1:00 am - A 19-year-old man was charged Thursday with felony disorderly conduct after he was accused of making threats to shoot Elk Grove High School students during their school ...
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Police: Elk Grove High School graduate in custody after social media threatMar 14, 2018 1:00 am - A recent Elk Grove High School graduate who threatened violence against the school online, leading to a lockdown at the end of the school day Wednesday, is now in police...
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Man doesn't deserve new trial just because prosecutor called him a liar, court saysMar 09, 2018 4:30 am - Is calling a defendant a “lying liar” in front of jurors and sarcastically referring to him as “John Wayne over here draped in the American flag” enough to win him a new...
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School safety more than a calling for archdiocese's new anti-violence chiefMar 02, 2018 4:30 am - Like everyone else, school safety is on Phil Andrew's mind a lot these days. But for Andrew, the former FBI agent recently named director of violence prevention initiati...
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Mount Prospect man sentenced to prison for sexually abusing girlsMar 02, 2018 12:00 am - A Mount Prospect man was sentenced to 6½ years in prison for sexually abusing two teenage girls. Michael Kenny, 57, pleaded guilty this week to aggravated criminal sexu...
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Report: Suburban Cook County has more DUI, fewer drug cases than ChicagoMar 02, 2018 12:00 am - For the second time in as many years, suburban Cook County DUI cases outnumbered Chicago cases. According to a Cook County state's attorney report issued Friday, prosec...
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Jailed woman sues Sheriff Dart over delayed release into electronic monitoringFeb 27, 2018 10:00 pm - Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is running into a backlash from the Cook County public defender and other legal advocates of people who are remaining in jail as his office ...
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Man pleads guilty in Prospect Heights attackFeb 26, 2018 12:00 am - A parolee whose attack against a Prospect Heights woman was deterred partly by the victim's dog pleaded guilty to unlawful use of a weapon by a felon in exchange for a 2...
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Prosecutors: Videos place suspect, victim together on night of killingFeb 22, 2018 12:00 am - A 21-year-old accused of shooting an Arlington Heights man seven times — including once in the head — then setting his Jeep Wrangler on fire with the body inside is bein...
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Medical examiner: Man found dead in burning car was shot multiple timesFeb 17, 2018 12:00 am - The man found dead inside a burning Jeep in Mount Prospect early Friday suffered multiple gunshot wounds, the Cook County medical examiner's office said Saturday. The me...