Waukegan Crime
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Ex-Waukegan cop who shot, killed 19-year-old Black man in 2020 faces murder chargesSep 22, 2022 1:00 am - The former Waukegan police officer who shot and killed 19-year-old Black man Marcellis Stinnette on Oct. 20, 2020, has been charged with three counts of second-degree mu...
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Prosecutors challenge SAFE-T Act eliminating cash bail as thousands sign petitionSep 21, 2022 5:00 am - As questions linger over what the end of cash bail will mean in Illinois, three county state's attorneys are turning to the courts for help, and one state senator has la...
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Sheriff's office: Spring Grove woman charged with felonies after shoving deputySep 20, 2022 1:00 am - A 40-year-old Spring Grove woman was arrested after she twice shoved a Lake County sheriff's deputy last week, authorities said. Jennifer L. Beese is charged with one fe...
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Sheriff's office says employees at 6 businesses sold alcohol to minorsSep 20, 2022 1:00 am - Six employees at Lake County businesses have been accused of selling alcohol to minors. The Lake County sheriff's office said Monohar T. Grandham, 60, Justin Defnil, 52,...
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Grayslake shooting victim identified as 23-year-old Waukegan manSep 19, 2022 1:00 am - The 23-year-old man who died Saturday after being shot while riding in a car in Grayslake has been identified as Isidro Juarez of Waukegan. Juarez died from a gunshot wo...
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Highland Park man identified as person killed in forest preserve confrontationSep 19, 2022 1:00 am - Lake County officials have identified a 45-year-old Highland Park man as the person who died early Saturday morning after a confrontation with two men at the Fort Sherid...
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Man shot, killed while riding in car in Grayslake; police, task force investigatingSep 16, 2022 11:00 pm - A man died Saturday after being struck by gunfire while riding in a car on Washington Street in Grayslake, according to a news release from the Lake County Major Crime T...
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Former Lake County deputy charged with falsifying timesheets to get $4,000 in unearned paySep 14, 2022 1:00 am - A former Lake County sheriff's deputy is charged with falsifying more than a dozen timesheets to earn more than $4,000 for overtime hours he did not work, authorities sa...
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Chicago man to serve 65 years in prison for fatal Waukegan shootingSep 12, 2022 1:00 am - A Lake County judge sentenced a Chicago man to serve 65 years in prison for a 2020 shooting in Waukegan that authorities attributed to road rage. Sheldon Brown, 34, plea...
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League of Women Voters hosting forum on reducing gun violenceSep 11, 2022 1:00 am - The League of Women Voters of Lake County is hosting a virtual forum "Reducing the Plague of Gun Violence, Here, There, Everywhere" at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Speakers are Jose...