Vernon Hills Crime
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Vernon Hills 18-year-old charged with mistreating dogsMar 19, 2019 1:00 am - Vernon Hills police charged an 18-year-old man with violating animal owner's duties after they found 10 dogs at a home on the 1000 block of Pine Grove Court Saturday. Po...
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Vernon Hills financial planner who defrauded clients sent to prisonMar 18, 2019 1:00 am - A financial planner from Vernon Hills who stole money set aside by clients for their retirement years has been sentenced to five years in prison. Victim Lovadore Bode on...
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Beach Park man guilty of double murder in bat beating caseMar 18, 2019 1:00 am - It took less than an hour for a Lake County jury to find Armando Trejo Jr. guilty of first-degree murder in the bludgeoning deaths of his wife and stepson. The jury als...
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How Lake County is working with schools to save time, lives in crisis situationsMar 15, 2019 5:30 am - When it comes to protecting students in a school crisis, every second counts. That's what officials in the Lake County sheriff's office and Mundelein-based Fremont Eleme...
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Officials hope decrease in opioid deaths continues in McHenry, suburban CookMar 14, 2019 5:30 am - It's a result McHenry County officials hope will continue: fewer opioid overdose deaths in 2018 than 2017, the first such decrease in four years. The county recorded 44 ...
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'Everything happened so fast': Lake County man testifies during his murder trialMar 14, 2019 1:00 am - Armando Trejo told the Lake County jury at his murder trial Thursday that “everything happened so fast” and “I couldn't think clearly” the night he repeatedly struck his...
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First responders testify about scene after Beach Park baseball bat killingsMar 13, 2019 1:00 am - Armando Trejo was calm while locked in handcuffs moments after a Lake County sheriff's deputy discovered two people in the house had been fatally beaten with an aluminum...
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Trejo murder trial begins with dueling versions of what prompted attackMar 12, 2019 1:00 am - Fearing his wife would leave after she discovered his infidelity days earlier, Armando Trejo repeatedly struck her and her son with an aluminum baseball bat, prosecutors...
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Man who admits beating wife, stepson with baseball bat goes on trial todayMar 11, 2019 5:30 am - Armando Trejo admits to using an aluminum baseball bat to beat his wife and stepson to death in their Lake County home in November 2015. But when he goes to trial today ...
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Vernon Hills man remains jailed on drug chargesMar 10, 2019 1:00 am - A 20-year old Vernon Hills resident remained jailed Sunday following his arrest on several drug-related charges during a raid that also led to the seizure of 10 dogs fro...