Prospect Heights Crime
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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...
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Police: Elgin woman starved dog on apartment balconyOct 20, 2014 1:01 am - A 24-year-old Elgin woman is accused of leaving two small dogs on her apartment balcony for a week, causing one of them to die of starvation, according to an Elgin polic...
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Accused of torturing cousin, man arrested in southwest MichiganOct 17, 2014 1:01 am - A 27-year-old man accused of locking a cousin in a cage, throwing hot wax on him and burning him with a lighter has been arrested in Berrien County, Michigan, Cook Count...
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Ex-Schaumburg cop's trial in drug-skimming case delayedOct 17, 2014 1:01 am - A trial date has been pushed back for a former Schaumburg police officer accused with two others of skimming drugs from police seizures and then using an informant to se...