Prospect Heights Crime
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Cook County jail corrections officer charged with drug possessionAug 16, 2024 4:58 pm - The Cook County sheriff’s department announced the arrest of a corrections officer at the Cook County jail on drug charges following an internal investigation of reports of individuals attempting to smuggle drugs into the facility.
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Lemont businessman sentenced to five years in prison for bribeAug 16, 2024 9:45 am - A Lemont businessman was sentenced Wednesday to five years in federal prison after admitting he bribed an employee of the Cook County assessor’s office to lower taxes on his family’s properties.
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Sheriff warns of drug-soaked pieces of paperAug 14, 2024 8:55 pm - Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart issued a warning Wednesday about the danger of paper soaked with synthetic drugs, after his investigators seized several pieces from inmates at the county jail recently.
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Would-be Chicago bomber resentenced to 27 years after original term deemed too lenientJul 19, 2024 2:44 pm - A Hillside man was re-sentenced to 27 years in federal prison Friday after authorities said he attempted to detonate a 1,000-pound bomb outside a Chicago bar in 2012.
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Sentenced to life for gruesome Barrington killing, he’s now free at 49. Here’s whyJul 11, 2024 3:49 pm - Less than three decades after he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for a grisly suburban murder, Paul Modrowski quietly left the Stateville Correctional Center a free man last week. The release of the 49-year-old convicted of murdering a man found decapitated in Barrington, and the reasons for it, raise complicated questions about equal justice, rehabilitation, disability bias and survivors’ rights.
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Bartlett man convicted in beating of grocery bagger charged anew for attacking neighborJul 09, 2024 4:42 pm - Police arrested a Bartlett man Monday on charges of assault, battery and resisting arrest after responding to a fight with a neighbor last month.
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Police: Man on parole for murder now faces gun chargeJun 28, 2024 8:06 pm - An Addison man on parole on a second-degree murder charge has been charged with possessing a loaded machine gun.
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‘You can’t do this on your own’: Cook Co. sheriff’s program helps recovering addicts maintain sobrietyJun 19, 2024 5:52 pm - Four decades into his recovery, self-described former street hustler and ex-convict Benny Lee still attends weekly meetings that help him maintain sobriety. “I’ve sat where you sit,” he told more than 40 people at Ready 4 Recovery, a Cook County sheriff’s department program for individuals who’ve completed drug and/or alcohol treatment and need ongoing support.
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Two injured in ‘gang-related’ shooting in Prospect HeightsMay 26, 2024 11:55 am - Two people suffered gunshot wounds in what police are calling a gang-related shooting late Saturday in Prospect Heights.
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Roommate charged in murder of 61-year-old Elgin manMay 20, 2024 11:27 am - The roommate of an Elgin man who was found dead earlier this month in his residence has been charged with his murder. Joseph A. Duran, 52, was charged with first-degree ...