Palatine Crime
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Man stabbed during domestic dispute in PalatineJan 06, 2021 12:00 am - A 28-year-old man was stabbed in a domestic dispute Tuesday night in Palatine, authorities said. The Palatine Fire Department responded to a call about a stabbing at 8:1...
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Tragedy and turmoil marked suburban crime news in 2020Jan 04, 2021 5:00 am - The heartbreaking story of the short, tragic life of AJ Freund, the Crystal Lake 5-year-old beaten to death in 2019 then buried in a shallow grave in Woodstock, conclude...
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Cook County sees record numbers of opioid, gun deaths in 2020Jan 02, 2021 12:00 am - The Cook County medical examiner's office handled record numbers of opioid deaths and gun-related homicides in 2020, as well as a record number of total cases because of...
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Buffalo Grove chief had big plans for international police group in 2020. Fate had other ideas.Dec 11, 2020 4:30 am - When Buffalo Grove Police Chief Steve Casstevens was sworn in last fall as president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, it was the culmination of more...
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Mother and daughter from Northbrook charged in Palatine burglaryDec 11, 2020 12:00 am - A mother and daughter from Northbrook have been charged with burglarizing a home in Palatine where one of them had a cleaning job in 2018, police said Friday in a news r...
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Mother charged in 2003 murder of newborn twins, bodies dumped in trash bin near StickneyDec 05, 2020 12:00 am - Inspired by news in 2018 of the arrest of the Golden State killer 32 years after his crime spree based on a DNA search for familial connections, Cook County sheriff's De...
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Des Plaines man accused of sending private sexual imagesDec 02, 2020 12:00 am - A Des Plaines man who authorities say sent out intimate, unclothed photos of a woman to two other people has been charged with nonconsensual dissemination of private sex...
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Des Plaines man charged with exposing self to Fremd studentDec 02, 2020 12:00 am - A 33-year-old Des Plaines man was arrested by Palatine police Tuesday after being identified as the suspect in an indecent exposure case at Fremd High School earlier in ...
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Cook County homicides top 900 mark in 2020: What's happened in Northwest suburbsDec 01, 2020 12:00 am - Cook County has recorded 902 homicides this year, marking the first time since 2016 and just the second time in nearly a quarter-century that the 900 mark has been reach...
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Palatine police seek hit-and-run driver who seriously injured bicyclistNov 23, 2020 12:00 am - Palatine police are seeking the public's help in locating a white SUV that struck and seriously injured a bicyclist Sunday afternoon then left the scene. According to po...