Port Barrington Crime
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Why Illinois State Police are changing standards for recruiting pushJan 17, 2020 4:28 am - Illinois wants you. It might not have the same ring to it as the "Uncle Sam Wants You" phrase that adorned military recruiting posters of the past, but the message is th...
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Freund hearing routine, but media cameras recording it a first in McHenry CountyJan 14, 2020 12:00 am - An otherwise routine proceeding Tuesday in the case of Andrew Freund Sr., charged with first-degree murder in the death of 5-year-old son AJ, was noteworthy as the first...
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'I think I just shot and killed Liz': Startling voicemail opens ex-cop's murder trialJan 14, 2020 12:00 am - The trial of a former Chicago police officer on murder charges began Monday with audio of a calm but startling voicemail message that then-71-year-old Lorin Volberding l...
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Huntley police arrest homeless man who they say posted threatJan 13, 2020 12:00 am - A 22-year-old homeless man was arrested after personnel at Huntley Community School District 158 told police about a threat he posted to bomb the school. On Facebook, th...
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Stabbing near Cary under investigationJan 09, 2020 12:00 am - The McHenry County sheriff's office is investigating a reported stabbing Thursday morning near Cary, authorities said. Authorities responded to the 6000 block of Acorn C...
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Demolition firm agrees to tear down AJ Freund's Crystal Lake home at no chargeJan 08, 2020 12:00 am - The Crystal Lake home where prosecutors say 5-year-old AJ Freund was killed by his parents in April could be demolished in 30 to 60 days. An offer from Green Demolition ...
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Former Uber driver sentenced to five years in prison for attack on passengerJan 06, 2020 12:00 am - An Elgin man and former Uber driver has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually abusing and trying to sexually assault a female passenger in 2017. Ahmed R. T...
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2019's most notable suburban crimesJan 03, 2020 5:00 am - A mass shooting at an Aurora factory, a heartbreaking conclusion to a case of a missing Crystal Lake boy, a 25-year sentence for a South Barrington cold case homicide; t...
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Report says AJ's death 'emblematic' of DCFS failuresJan 03, 2020 12:00 am - The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services' watchdog called 5-year-old AJ Freund's murder in April "emblematic of DCFS's failure to look beyond the current ...
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Waukegan man gets 6 years in prison for providing drugs in overdose deathDec 20, 2019 12:00 am - A Waukegan man was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison for providing the drugs in the overdose death of a 39-year-old McHenry woman in June 2018. Jermal A. Johnson...