Wheeling Crime
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Drug-induced homicide charges in death of St. Charles-area manMay 20, 2019 1:00 am - An Elgin man is held on $500,000 bail after he was charged with providing a fatal dose of fentanyl-laced heroin to 25-year-old Trevor Brubaker, who was found in his St. ...
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Man sentenced to 15 years for abusing girl in WheelingMay 17, 2019 1:00 am - A 34-year-old man was sentenced to 15 years in prison and lifetime sex offender registry in exchange for his guilty plea to sexually assaulting a girl in Wheeling and in...
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Family begs prosecutor to review conviction based ID by legally blind witnessMay 13, 2019 1:00 am - Nakesha Harris stood on the street outside Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's office Monday, with tears in her eyes and her arms wrapped around a framed portrait of...
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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...