Wheeling Crime
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Lyft driver from Wheeling accused of kidnapping passenger, assaulting her twiceMay 06, 2019 1:00 am - A driver for a ride-sharing company has been charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a passenger in the Northwest suburbs. Alexander P. Sowa, 34, of Wheeling was...
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Foxx says there's no need for special prosecutor in Smollett caseApr 30, 2019 1:00 am - Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx says that neither she nor her top deputy needs to appear at a hearing this week on a former judge's request to appoint a special pr...
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13-year prison sentence for Elgin man who abused, shook 7-week-old babyApr 26, 2019 1:00 am - A 25-year-old Elgin man was sentenced to 13 years in prison Friday for breaking the leg of his live-in girlfriend's 7-week-old son in March 2016 and later shaking the ba...
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Man who stole BMW, led Elgin police on chase gets jail, probationApr 25, 2019 1:00 am - A McHenry man pleaded guilty this week to stealing a BMW from a driveway in Elgin and leading police on a drunken chase, and was sentenced to 180 days in jail and two ye...
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Wheeling man charged with sexually abusing girlApr 22, 2019 1:00 am - A 56-year-old Wheeling man was ordered held on $250,000 bail Monday on charges he sexually abused a girl more than two years ago when she was 10 years old. If convicted...
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Prosecutor receives death threats in wake of Smollett decisionApr 22, 2019 1:00 am - Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx has received a series of threats against her life and safety in the wake of her office's decision earlier this month to abruptly dr...
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Exonerated Arlington Heights man sues Wheeling and other police departmentsApr 15, 2019 1:00 am - An Arlington Heights man whose conviction for the 2013 murder of Wheeling's Rafael Orozco was reversed by the Illinois Appellate Court last year has filed a federal laws...
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Man accused of stabbing Elgin psychiatrist fit to stand trial; defense may argue insanityApr 12, 2019 1:00 am - A man charged with stabbing his Elgin psychiatrist with a steak knife in August after she refused to write him a prescription for medical marijuana was ruled fit to stan...
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Former Schaumburg officer continuing efforts to have conviction vacatedApr 11, 2019 1:00 am - DuPage County prosecutors are objecting to a former Schaumburg police officer's attempts to have his conviction vacated and charges dismissed. In a one-page motion to di...
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Bolingbrook man gets 19 years for child pornography, sex traffickingApr 06, 2019 1:00 am - Ronald Gobenciong, 46, of Bolingbrook was sentenced Thursday to 19 years in federal prison man in a child pornography and sex trafficking case, the Cook County sheriff's...