Naperville Crime
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Suburban campaigns aim to curb prescription drug overdosesNov 18, 2015 4:00 am - A parent has a tooth pulled and fills a prescription for a 90-day supply of Vicodin. Taking three pills in the days after the surgery, the patient soon feels fine and s...
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Texas county: Sandra Bland was despondent over not meeting bailNov 14, 2015 12:00 am - HOUSTON - Sandra Bland, the Naperville woman found dead in a Texas county jail this summer, killed herself because she was despondent over her relatives' refusal to quic...
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Wheaton investment firm owner faces fraud chargesNov 13, 2015 12:00 am - A 58-year-old Winfield man was indicted on charges of misappropriating nearly $1.2 million in client funds to help cover payroll and tax commitments at his Wheaton inves...
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Winfield man gets prison time for sex assault, abuseNov 13, 2015 12:00 am - A Winfield man, formerly of Geneva, was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a child he knew over a seven-year span, ending in A...
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Police standoff ends in NapervilleNov 12, 2015 12:00 am - An eight-hour standoff with Naperville police ended peacefully Thursday evening on the city's south side, where a man had been refusing since late morning to leave a hou...
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DuPage County wants to keep sending youth detainees to Kane CountyNov 11, 2015 12:00 am - DuPage County has agreed to continue sending its youth detainees to the Kane County Juvenile Justice Center in St. Charles. Four years ago, DuPage made a controversial d...
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Downtown fights down, DUIs up in NapervilleNov 10, 2015 12:00 am - Crime has dropped over the past year in downtown Naperville, authorities say, with declines in fighting and cases of offenders resisting arrest or interfering with or ob...
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Drug charges filed in wake of death of NIU student from Des PlainesNov 09, 2015 12:00 am - Three men are facing criminal charges for, police said, obtaining the LSD that contributed to the death of a 19-year-old Northern Illinois University student from Des Pl...
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Why Explorer post was easy target for GliniewiczNov 08, 2015 6:30 am - Among the surprise developments in the death of Fox Lake Police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz announced last week was that he had pilfered a "five-figure amount" from th...
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Dawn Patrol: Gliniewicz' wife, son part of theft probe; gravestone dispute settledNov 06, 2015 4:00 am - Source: Probe turns to Gliniewicz's wife, son: Melodie Gliniewicz and D.J. Gliniewicz are now part of the criminal investigation that stems from what authorities ha...