Naperville Crime
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Warring Peterson lawyers take fight to courtFeb 18, 2013 4:00 pm - Drew Peterson’s wisecracking, limelight-hogging, sunglasses-wearing lawyers faced the media horde every day of the former Bolingbrook police sergeant’s 2012 trial — one ...
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Trial set for Wheaton man accused of fatally stabbing neighborFeb 18, 2013 12:00 pm - A Wheaton man plans to argue self-defense when he stands trial this week in the stabbing death of his neighbor, Micheal Scalzo. Michael Delaney, 49, is accused of killi...
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Lawsuit filed over alcohol-related death of NIU studentFeb 14, 2013 4:00 pm - The family of a Northern Illinois University freshman who died last November, reportedly after an alcohol-related hazing incident at a fraternity, filed suit Thursday in...
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Naperville double-murder suspect must provide DNAFeb 11, 2013 10:00 am - Double-murder suspect Elzbieta Plackowska of Naperville has been ordered to provide hair and saliva samples for DNA comparison. Prosecutors want to test the samples aga...
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Suspect called ‘Beauty Salon’ bandit faces charges in DuPageFeb 08, 2013 2:14 pm - An Evanston man whom police dubbed the “Beauty Salon” robber is facing additional criminal charges in connection with robberies at four DuPage County businesses, authori...
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Former Drew Peterson lawyer sues current lawyerFeb 07, 2013 5:00 pm - A public quarrel between one former and one current attorney for Drew Peterson over who is to blame for the former Bolingbrook police sergeant's murder conviction has es...
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More charges in Batavia assisted living center thefts, forgeriesFeb 06, 2013 10:00 pm - When Batavia police last December arrested a 19-year-old caretaker at an assisted living facility and charged her with forging a $1,000 check from a resident, authoritie...
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Woman gets eight years for dirty dish shootingFeb 06, 2013 4:00 pm - A Downers Grove woman was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison for blasting her boyfriend with a shotgun — a crime authorities said was sparked in part by a dirt...
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4 defendants plead not guilty to murders in JolietFeb 05, 2013 4:13 pm - Four people accused of strangling two Joliet men have all pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges. Investigators say officers arrived to find three of the susp...
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Bond set for third suspect in Aurora hammer slayingFeb 05, 2013 9:00 am - A Kane County judge Tuesday set bail at $100,000 for the third man charged in last week's murder of Abigail Villalpando, a 18-year-old West Aurora High School student. J...