Northbrook Crime
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Surrounded by friends, family, teen loses lonely battle with drugsJan 01, 2014 1:01 am - Editor's note: This story originally ran on Jan. 21, 2002 as part of the Daily Herald's "Hidden Scourge: Heroin in the Suburbs" series. They go to proms and con...
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Heroin addict thought falling of the wagon once wouldn't hurtJan 01, 2014 1:00 am - Editor's note: This story originally ran on Oct. 6, 2002 as part of the Daily Herald's "Hidden Scourge: Heroin in the Suburbs" series. This is part of an occasi...
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Police arrest 3rd suspect in pregnant girl’s deathDec 30, 2013 3:50 pm - A third suspect in the Christmas Day fatal shooting of a pregnant teenager in the South suburbs has turned himself in to police. Attorney Stuart Goldberg says his client...
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Persistence on suburban cold cases paid off in 2013Dec 29, 2013 12:52 pm - A pair of suburban cold cases, including the unsolved 1979 murder of an Inverness commodities broker, heated up this year, leading in both instances to the arrest of the...
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Police investigating if carjacking suspect was in Libertyville, fled officersDec 26, 2013 6:53 pm - Libertyville police investigating whether they nearly had carjacking suspect
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Flags lowered in honor of slain investigatorDec 26, 2013 5:47 pm - Flags were lowered to half-staff around Illinois in honor of an off-duty Cook County sheriff’s investigator who was killed while trying to stop an armed robbery outside ...
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2 charged in death of Cook County investigatorDec 23, 2013 3:13 pm - Two men are being held without bond after being charged with murder and robbery for the shooting death of an off-duty Illinois sheriff’s investigator who was trying to b...
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Officers’ arrests cause ripple effect in Cook County courtsDec 23, 2013 2:38 pm - For months after authorities arrested three undercover Schaumburg police officers on charges they sold drugs skimmed from seizures, the fallout rippled through the Cook ...
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Judge, Preckwinkle spar over jail issueDec 20, 2013 3:45 pm - Cook County’s chief judge is taking a swipe at the county board president over the issue of jail overcrowding. Chief Judge Timothy Evans on Friday issued a statement acc...
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Inmates tearing down vacant buildingsDec 20, 2013 3:12 pm - Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says boot camp inmates will tear down abandoned buildings in areas hit hard by foreclosures. Dart said Friday that more than 100 people serv...