St. Charles Crime
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Something fishy: Former St. Charles restaurant operator accused of stealing thousands in seafoodFeb 10, 2023 5:00 am - This is no fish tale. Several men, including the former operator of a St. Charles seafood store/restaurant, have been charged with theft. Not of cold cash, but of cold s...
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Sleepy Hollow man pleads guilty to armed violence in gun, drugs caseFeb 09, 2023 12:00 am - A Sleepy Hollow man who had faced gun and drug charges pleaded guilty Thursday to armed violence. Petro Evaristo-Aguilar, 23, of the 900 block of Willow Lane, also plead...
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2 teens plead guilty to arson in fire that destroyed Pheasant Run ResortFeb 08, 2023 12:00 am - Two boys pleaded guilty to felony arson Wednesday for starting a May 2022 fire that heavily damaged the shuttered Pheasant Run Resort. "Well, boys, you really screwed up...
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Man charged after threatening to hurt himself with scissors at Kane County courthouseFeb 01, 2023 12:00 am - A Batavia man was arrested Wednesday at the Kane County Judicial Center in St. Charles after authorities say he grabbed a pair of scissors at the public defender's offic...
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Guns in peanut butter and a whole chicken: What TSA agents found during a record-breaking 2022Jan 20, 2023 4:00 am - We all know you can't bring a gun aboard a commercial flight, but that didn't stop a record 6,542 failed attempts last year, according to the Transportation Security Adm...
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Elgin man arrested after police chase, crash in St. CharlesJan 20, 2023 12:00 am - An Elgin man has been charged after a Friday morning police chase ended with a crash in St. Charles. Quinelle M. Franklin, 32, of the 1600 block of Mark Avenue, is charg...
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Woman gets probation for theft, has to repay $496K to St. Charles businessJan 19, 2023 12:00 am - A woman has been ordered to repay a St. Charles business the nearly $500,000 she stole from it. On Thursday, Rosa M. Rodriguez, 43, of DeKalb, agreed to a sentence of 48...
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Fentanyl use in illicit drug supply continues to fuel rise in fatal Kane County overdosesJan 19, 2023 12:00 am - The rate of opioid deaths in Kane County doubled in the last decade, and county officials are trying to determine a multipronged approach to bring the numbers down. Mich...
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Wisconsin man arrested on drug, gun charges on I-90Jan 17, 2023 12:00 am - Kane County sheriff's detectives investigating drug trafficking along the Jane Addams Tollway arrested a Wisconsin man on weapons and drug charges Sunday, authorities sa...
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Suburban cold cases solved and unsolved: How DNA has played a role so farJan 13, 2023 4:00 am - Despite thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews and untold hours of investigation, it took nearly a decade - and a couple of strokes of luck - for police to arrest th...