Wheeling Crime
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Suburban cops make prostitution arrests in nationwide sex trafficking sweepJul 29, 2013 9:00 am - Editor's note: The charges against Shanice Gregory were dismissed. Two children were rescued and numerous prostitution-related arrests were made in the metropolitan...
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Guilty plea in downtown Elgin cellphone store burglaryJul 26, 2013 4:58 pm - An Elgin man pleaded guilty Friday to a May 7 smash-and-grab burglary of an downtown cellphone store. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 30 months of probation. Lac...
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Police: Elgin man forced way into apartment, beat man with brickJul 26, 2013 4:42 pm - A 24-year-old Elgin man is accused of forcing his way into an Elgin apartment, beating a man with a landscape brick and threatening others with a gun while trying to fin...
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Suburban men indicted on federal extortion chargesJul 26, 2013 10:22 am - Nine suburban men have been indicted by a federal grand jury on extortion and attempted extortion charges. FBI officials announced the charges yesterday after the indict...
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Judge: Accused W. Dundee youth pastor may travelJul 25, 2013 2:31 pm - A West Dundee church youth director accused of having sex with a minor made his first court appearance Thursday and was granted permission from a judge to travel to Mass...
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Dart urges Congress to help law enforcement fight sex traffickingJul 25, 2013 11:25 am - Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart released the following statement Thursday in regard to prosecuting human traffickers: “As the tactics of sex traffickers to evade the ...
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$500,000 bail for man accused of child porn at Bloomingdale libraryJul 25, 2013 10:09 am - A sex offender accused of viewing child pornography at the Bloomingdale Public Library was ordered held Thursday on $500,000 bail. Scott Baudin, 58, appeared in DuPage ...
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Cops: Bloomingdale sex offender went to library to look at child pornJul 24, 2013 8:49 pm - A Bloomingdale sex offender was arrested Wednesday after police say he picked an unlikely place to view child pornography — the public library. Scott Baudin, 58, of the ...
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Elgin man arrested after storage unit search turns up marijuanaJul 23, 2013 3:37 pm - A 31-year-old man faces felony charges after nearly two pounds of marijuana were found in a storage locker in Elgin in August 2012, according to police and court records...
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Man guilty of 2011 Elgin pizza parlor holdup faces life termJul 18, 2013 3:38 pm - A Kane County jury convicted a 47-year-old Chicago man of armed robbery, aggravated kidnapping and armed violence for a botched holdup of a Little Caesar’s Pizza on Elgi...