Wheaton Crime
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Heroin overdose deaths, rescues both on the rise in 4 countiesNov 09, 2017 4:30 am - Heroin and opioid overdose deaths are on pace to top last year's totals in four of six area counties, even while first responders are setting records for saving lives us...
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68-year sentence in brutal Willowbrook stabbing, rapeNov 09, 2017 12:00 am - Once he was in custody, Londale Madison told police that after he stabbed and raped his victim in August 2015, he thought about punching the woman so hard that she would...
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Judge denies bail reduction in DuPage road rage homicide caseNov 07, 2017 12:00 am - The $3 million bail set for the man accused in the April shooting death of a truck driver on the Reagan Tollway in Oak Brook will stand. DuPage County Judge John Kinsell...
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DuPage inmate charged with pulling fire alarm that caused courthouse evacuationNov 07, 2017 12:00 am - A DuPage County jail inmate, already relegated to wearing a spit guard to court and being confined to a soundproof box, has added another felony to the list of charges h...
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Man pleads not guilty in 135 mph fatal crashNov 06, 2017 12:00 am - A 62-year-old Warrenville man pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he triggered a fiery September crash in Wheaton that killed an Elgin woman. Brian Thunderkick, of the...
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Ex-state lawmaker pleads not guilty to shoplifting chargesNov 03, 2017 1:00 am - Former longtime Illinois lawmaker Sandra Pihos has pleaded not guilty to shoplifting from a Lombard shopping mall. Pihos, of the 500 block of Williamsburgh Road, is char...
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Report: Chicago man pleads guilty to being intoxicated during 2015 fatal DuPage County crashNov 03, 2017 1:00 am - A Chicago man pleaded guilty Thursday to driving intoxicated when he hit and killed a motorcyclist on I-55 in DuPage County, the Chicago Tribune is reporting. Fawzi Ott...
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Haymarket could open residential drug treatment center in WheatonNov 03, 2017 12:00 am - A Chicago drug and alcohol treatment center seeking to expand its programs to Wheaton would fill a void for recovering addicts as the region faces an unrelenting opioid ...
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Probation, restitution for ex-Chicago cop in Naperville tent-burning caseNov 01, 2017 1:00 am - The retired Chicago police sergeant accused of setting fire to a vacant tent belonging to a well-known Naperville squatter has been sentenced to two years' probation and...
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'Lego Bandit' asks DuPage to help pay court finesNov 01, 2017 1:00 am - Notorious Florida shoplifter and burglar Ignatius Pollara is just a few weeks away from being released on parole from Pontiac Correctional Facility and he's trying to re...