Northfield Crime
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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...
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Presumed Gacy victim found alive in MontanaDec 19, 2013 3:28 pm - A man presumed dead for decades has been found alive and well in Montana. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said his investigators located Robert Hutton after his sister subm...
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Crime data lacking when it comes to gunsDec 16, 2013 4:30 am - Despite the seemingly ever-present debate over gun-control laws, little data exists on the prevalence of crimes committed by people using guns. Most studies of gun crime...
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Arlington Hts. shooter had criminal past, cop expected to recoverDec 13, 2013 8:00 am - Officer Michael McEvoy was on patrol for his regular Thursday evening shift when a call came over the radio about a man with a gun at a townhouse in Arlington Heights. M...