Waukegan Crime
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Lake County warrants team captures two fugitivesMar 20, 2019 1:00 am - The Lake County Sheriff's Office Warrants Team and the U.S. Marshals Service Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force apprehended two fugitives on Tuesday, authorities s...
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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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Waukegan man found guilty of first-degree murderMar 15, 2019 1:00 am - A Waukegan man was found guilty of killing a North Chicago man after an argument inside a bar in 2018. Andre Jones, 35, of the 1700 block of Longview Road, was convicted...
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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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Waukegan man faces felony drug chargesMar 13, 2019 1:00 am - A 23-year-old Waukegan man faces several felony drug charges after being arrested during a traffic stop Tuesday in Round Lake Park, police said. Andrew Camacho, of the ...
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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 ...