Park Ridge Crime
-
Suburban Chicago officer sentenced for extortionAug 05, 2014 1:01 am - A Lyons police officer has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for extorting more than $48,000 from targets of investigations into illegal cigarette sales. Ji...
-
Man convicted of 2005 Aurora murder seeks juvenile courtAug 05, 2014 1:01 am - A Sudanese immigrant whose 35-year prison sentence for fatally shooting an Aurora woman recently was overturned wants his case returned to juvenile court - a move that t...
-
ATF investigating gun used by Tower Lakes man in Loop shootingAug 01, 2014 1:01 am - The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is conducting an "urgent" trace to find out where Tower Lakes resident Tony DeFrances got the gun he used to shoot hi...
-
Streamwood nurse charged with Medicare fraudJul 29, 2014 1:01 am - A Streamwood woman who managed an in-home health care business is facing several federal Medicare fraud charges. Diana Jocelyn Gumila, 45, is accused of "double-billing...
-
Man held in 1992 strangling death of Niles West studentJul 24, 2014 1:01 am - More than two decades after the strangling death of a Niles West High School student, a 71-year-old man was arrested in California in connection with the case, authoriti...
-
Elgin teen who accosted woman on trail gets probationJul 22, 2014 1:00 am - A 19-year-old man was sentenced to 18 months probation after admitting to accosting of a woman walking on the Fox River Trail in April, according to Kane County court re...
-
Probation for 1 of 3 in Kane presciption drug schemeJul 18, 2014 1:01 am - A 35-year-old South Elgin woman received 30 months of probation Friday after admitting to possessing blank prescription drug forms, a felony. Suzanna E. Rostek, of the 0...
-
Former Addison commodities clerk sentenced in fraudJul 17, 2014 1:00 am - A former clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was sentenced to eight months in prison for a commodities fraud scheme that netted her more than $200,000. Nicole M. G...
-
Woman pleads guilty to torture, murder of Waukegan manJul 15, 2014 1:01 am - A Waukegan woman who assisted in the torture and killing of a man she believed sexually assaulted her pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder in Lake County c...
-
Jails struggle with role as makeshift asylumsJul 14, 2014 5:00 am - The numbers, posted daily on the Cook County sheriff's website, would be alarming at an urgent care clinic, let alone a jail: On a Wednesday, 36 percent of all new arriv...