Prospect Heights Crime
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Cook County jail guard charged with theftOct 31, 2014 1:01 am - A Cook County correctional officer who conspired with an inmate to buy what he thought was stolen merchandise has been charged with felony theft, authorities said. In a ...
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Authorities: Judge attacked by inmate in Maywood courtroomOct 30, 2014 1:01 am - Authorities say a Cook County jail inmate appearing in a Maywood courtroom for a routine hearing attacked a judge. Cook County Jail Executive Director Cara Smith said th...
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Cook County corrections officer charged with theftOct 29, 2014 1:01 am - A Cook County correctional officer has been charged with theft and placed on paid administrative leave, the Cook County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday. Fernando Munoz, ...
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Trial delayed for Glencoe man involved in Lincolnshire crash that killed Wheeling womanOct 27, 2014 1:01 am - The trial for a man accused of driving while intoxicated during a crash in Lincolnshire that killed a Wheeling woman was delayed Monday due to medical issues, authoritie...
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Bloomingdale teen sentenced for summer 2013 'crime wave'Oct 24, 2014 12:00 pm - The first member of what DuPage County Judge John Kinsella called a “two-man crime wave” that preyed on suburban businesses last summer, is headed to prison. Nicholas Pa...
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Des Plaines man sentenced in murder-for-hire plotOct 24, 2014 1:01 am - A 51-year-old Des Plaines man was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison after pleading guilty in July to attempting to hire a hitman to kill his estranged wife and h...
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Inmate charged with murder just before he was to be releasedOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - On the day he was scheduled to leave prison after serving a five-year sentence for burglary, a suburban man found out he was charged in the stabbing death of a woman 12 ...
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Search in serial killing case comes up emptyOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - Authorities who learned that a man who confessed to killing several women whose bodies were found in abandoned buildings in Indiana may have traveled to the South suburb...
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Prospect Hts. police save man from heroin overdoseOct 22, 2014 1:01 am - The front-desk clerk at a Prospect Heights motel heard a woman running down the hall, screaming for help. Trying to find the source of the ruckus Tuesday night, the Mote...
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Scheme to smuggle marijuana into jail uncoveredOct 21, 2014 1:01 am - A Cook County jail guard, a Chicago police dispatcher and three inmates have been charged in what federal authorities say was a scheme to stuff marijuana and other contr...