Naperville Crime
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'It is wholly inadequate': Family disappointed after driver gets 7 years for killing teenJul 21, 2020 11:00 pm - Joseph Kucharski was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison for the reckless homicide of Downers Grove North High School student Beth Dunlap, in which he ran her d...
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Arson suspected in Naperville fire that displaced 20 peopleJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - Twenty people in a Naperville multifamily residential building were displaced as the result of suspected arson on the 700 Block of Inland Circle on Tuesday afternoon. Th...
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Naperville police reporting drop in most crimesJul 20, 2020 11:00 pm - A reduction in most crimes so far this year in Naperville could be the one good thing attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities said. The Naperville Police Depa...
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Local FOP chief on George Floyd: We stand in solidarity with every outraged personJul 18, 2020 3:00 pm - An excerpt from a Naperville FOP Statement issued June 25 by John Reed on the death a month earlier of George Floyd after being restrained with a knee against his neck f...
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How it feels these days to be a cop: The view from a suburban detectiveJul 18, 2020 3:00 pm - John Reed is a violent crimes detective in the Naperville Police Department and president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 42. He has received dozens of commendati...
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St. Charles man charged with indecent solicitation in DuPage CountyJul 13, 2020 1:00 am - A St. Charles man has been charged following a weeklong investigation into sexually inappropriate online conversations he was having with someone he believed was a 14-ye...
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DuPage County man gets 30 years in beating murderJul 13, 2020 1:00 am - James Aydelotte was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday for beating a man to death in January 2017 in an unincorporated area near Glen Ellyn. "This was no accident. T...
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How some suburban courts plan to resume jury trials, keep people safeJul 10, 2020 5:30 am - When DuPage County resumes jury trials July 20, felony judge John Kinsella will have to get used to occasionally being moved out of "his" courtroom. Room 4000 is the big...
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Naperville man accused of abusing girl he met on SnapchatJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - A 27-year-old Naperville man who turned himself in to police on June 29 has been charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a girl he met on social media. Accordin...
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Ex-probation officer sentenced to prison for violating sentence on sex caseJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - A former DuPage County probation officer is being sent to prison after violating the terms of his sentence on misconduct charges. Judge John Kinsella Wednesday sentenced...