Wheaton Crime
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Former COD radio station employee pleads guilty, faces prison timeFeb 28, 2017 12:00 am - A former College of DuPage radio station employee accused of defrauding the school of more than $100,000 likely will face prison time after pleading guilty Tuesday morni...
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Trial opens for West Chicago man charged as child predatorFeb 28, 2017 12:00 am - A hide-and-seek "cheater" may have saved a Lisle girl from being victimized by a West Chicago man whom authorities describe as "obsessed with kids," according to testimo...
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Wheaton man who worked at private school pleads guilty to child porn chargesFeb 28, 2017 12:00 am - The former IT director of a private college prep school in Evanston is headed to prison for about six months. Timothy King, 45, of the 1000 block of Arbor Court in Wheat...
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60-year prison sentence in $1.35 million Aurora heroin bustFeb 27, 2017 12:00 am - An Aurora man convicted of possessing nearly 20 pounds of heroin in one of the largest drug arrests in Kane County history was sentenced to 60 years in prison Friday. Mo...
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Witness recounts fatal shooting of Bartlett manFeb 23, 2017 12:00 am - A key witness in the murder trial against a former Algonquin man accused of killing a Bartlett man in 2014 over drugs testified Thursday that Gary Bennett shot a man in ...
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Downers Grove man guilty in mother's 2013 murderFeb 23, 2017 12:00 am - A Downers Grove man faces between 45 years and life in prison after being convicted Thursday of firing a single, fatal shot into his mother's head outside a Burr Ridge c...
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Trial begins for Downers Grove man accused of fatally shooting motherFeb 22, 2017 12:00 am - Burr Ridge police officer Louis Moravecek pulled into the parking lot of St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church just after 1 a.m. on Aug. 29, 2013, to find a hysterical Michael...
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Downers Grove man accused of killing mother to stand trialFeb 21, 2017 12:00 am - The jury trial for a Downers Grove man accused of murdering his mother in a church parking lot will begin Wednesday morning. Michael Zaky Bassaly, 30, is charged with fi...
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Wheaton murder suspect barred from contacting ex-wife's childrenFeb 21, 2017 12:00 am - In his first court appearance since being charged with killing his ex-wife in Wheaton, Lee Leinweber had restrictions placed on his communication. DuPage County prosecut...
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$1 million bail set for two in drug-induced homicide caseFeb 19, 2017 12:00 am - Two men facing charges in connection with the January drug overdose death of an Addison man were ordered held on $1 million bail over the weekend, according to the DuPag...