West Chicago Crime
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Downers Grove murder suspect on 911 call: 'I shot my mom'Aug 30, 2013 10:00 am - A Downers Grove man made a frantic 911 call and repeatedly confessed to killing his mother moments after he shot her in a Burr Ridge church parking lot, authorities said...
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Aurora police release video in abortion protest assault caseAug 30, 2013 4:36 am - Aurora police have released a surveillance video that left authorities split over whether to charge a Naperville man with swerving his vehicle at an abortion protester. ...
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Oak Brook attorney faces federal fraud chargesAug 29, 2013 12:00 pm - A suburban attorney whose law license was suspended earlier this year was arrested today on federal fraud charges. Prosecutors said Kathleen Niew, 57, of Burr Ridge, mis...
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Downers Grove man charged in mother’s murderAug 29, 2013 10:49 am - A Downers Grove man is charged with the shooting death of his 61-year-old mother. DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Burr Ridge Chief of Police John Ma...
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Second man charged in Naperville cellphone store robberyAug 28, 2013 4:56 pm - A DuPage County judge set bail Wednesday for one of two men charged with robbing a Naperville store of more than $40,000 worth of cellphones. Dennis Clark, 23, of Chica...
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31 charged in DuPage County heroin bustAug 28, 2013 9:06 am - Calling heroin deaths a regional epidemic, authorities Wednesday announced charges against 31 people accused of peddling the drug for a massive distribution network in C...
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Villa Park man charged with burglaryAug 27, 2013 7:17 pm - A Villa Park man has been charged with burglary after police say they caught him in the back lot of a Carol Stream business early Tuesday morning. Nicholas Prendergast, ...
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Aurora man gets 4½ years for $290,000 theft from employerAug 22, 2013 3:37 pm - An Aurora man was sentenced Thursday to 4½ years in prison for stealing more than $290,000 from an Oak Brook firm where he worked as an accountant. Shaun Horan, 32, of ...
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Judge upholds arrest in Aurora gang rape caseAug 21, 2013 12:00 pm - A Kane County judge Tuesday upheld a warrantless arrest of a one of three men accused of a gang rape of a drunken Joliet woman near Aurora University in August 2012. The...
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Glen Ellyn man faces sex abuse, child porn chargesAug 21, 2013 11:00 am - A Glen Ellyn man has been charged with possessing child pornography and sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl, authorities said Wednesday. Jeffrey Dixon, 55, of the 500 bl...