Palatine Crime
-
Cellphone distributor gets 2 years in prison for tax evasionJul 06, 2018 1:00 am - A 53-year-old Highland Park man who pleaded guilty to tax evasion this year was sentenced to two years in prison Friday. Jordan Eckerling once operated a cellular phone ...
-
Elgin man who bit off part of finger in fight gets jail, probationJul 02, 2018 1:00 am - An Elgin man accused of biting off part of another man's finger during a fight in late 2017 has been sentenced to jail time, probation and ordered to undergo an evaluati...
-
Prosecution witness says Rudd's wife's death was no accidentJun 29, 2018 1:00 am - A former Cook County chief medical examiner testified Friday that Donnie Rudd's second wife was killed by blows to her head, disputing a defense expert's account that sh...
-
Rudd's medical expert says wife died from 'internal decapitation'Jun 28, 2018 1:00 am - There was another twist Thursday in the already strange saga of Donnie Rudd, a former attorney accused of killing Noreen Kumeta, his 19-year-old bride of just one month,...
-
Pathologist testifies head injury, not broken neck, killed 19-year-old brideJun 27, 2018 1:00 am - Happy and beautiful. That was how Karen Mezera described her older sister Noreen Kumeta on Aug. 18, 1973, the day Noreen married Donnie Rudd, a patent attorney whom she ...
-
Palatine man charged with attempted murder in stabbingJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - A 45-year-old Palatine man accused of stabbing a woman in the abdomen Saturday morning at a Palatine condominium complex is now facing an attempted murder charge, Palati...
-
Prosecutors in murder trial: 19-year-old bride 'a means to an end'Jun 26, 2018 1:00 am - Prosecutors in former suburban lawyer Donnie Rudd's murder trial painted him as a man who married his 19-year-old second wife Noreen Kumeta after a whirlwind courtship, ...
-
Man charged with gun crime after brief chase in PalatineJun 26, 2018 1:00 am - A 26-year-old Dolton man who led Palatine police on a brief foot chase Saturday night was charged with a litany of crimes after police found a loaded .40 caliber Glock p...
-
Palatine shooting leads to high-speed chase through suburbs, ChicagoJun 25, 2018 1:00 am - A shooting during a car break-in in Palatine early Monday led to a high-speed police chase through the suburbs and Chicago that ended with a crash on the city's Near Wes...
-
Woman stabbed Saturday in Palatine domestic incidentJun 23, 2018 1:00 am - A 39-year-old woman was stabbed in the abdomen Saturday morning in what authorities describe as a domestic incident in the courtyard of a Palatine condominium complex. P...