Cook County Crime
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Police: Sex offender lied to force his way into Elgin apartment
Nov 30, 2018 9:27 PM - A sex offender charged with attacking an Elgin woman on Nov. 20 knocked on her apartment door, lied about her husband having an affair, and then pushed his way inside and sexually assaulted her while her 4-year-old son was home, according to court records and police. -
Cook County 'Tails' program offers redemption for inmates, dogs
Nov 22, 2018 2:31 PM - Cookie was too big, too mixed and too surly to find a home. Until she joined Cook County's innovative "Tails of Redemption" program. Now she's on her way to becoming a law enforcement officer. Did we mention Cookie is a dog?
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Police: St. Charles man pistol-whipped couple in Elgin apartment
Nov 13, 2018 5:20 PM - A 41-year-old St. Charles man is charged with entering an Elgin apartment early Saturday, and beating a woman and a man with a gun and causing a shot to be fired. -
$2 million bail for suspect in Elgin shooting that wounded three
Oct 23, 2018 6:25 PM - A 22-year-old Elgin man has been arrested and charged with shooting and wounding three men early Sunday in Elgin. Luis K. Mora-Otero faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted and police are still searching for another man. -
Elgin kidnapping, cigarette torture case set for March trial
Oct 2, 2018 1:59 PM - A Kane County judge Tuesday denied a motion to ban from trial a woman's statements to Elgin police regarding a teen who was kidnapped and tortured with lit cigarettes. Lino is the final defendant in the case; four others have pleaded guilty and were sent to prison. -
3 years' prison for Elgin man's 4th DUI conviction
Sep 27, 2018 5:16 PM - An Elgin man arrested earlier this year on charges of his sixth DUI has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a reduced charge. -
More than 80 arrested in Cook, Lake county prostitution stings
Aug 29, 2018 6:05 PM - Cook County Sheriff's and Arlington Heights police combined to make 75 arrests of suspected prostitution customers during a monthlong national law enforcement effort, authorities announced Wednesday. -
Two men shot near Des Plaines early SundayJul 24, 2018 4:10 PM - Two men were shot and hospitalized in unincorporated Maine Township near Des Plaines early Sunday morning, police said.
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Teen gets 6 years in 2017 carjacking of Elgin man trying to sell car
Jul 19, 2018 4:58 PM - An 18-year-old from Chicago accused in a November 2017 knife-point carjacking of an Elgin man who was trying to sell his car pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge and was sentenced to six years in prison. -
Schneider wants hearing over fatal crash blamed on Cook forest preserve driver
Jul 12, 2018 4:52 PM - A suburban Cook County commissioner is calling for a hearing to investigate the circumstances that allowed a 20-year-old seasonal employee of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County to be driving a truck blamed for a six-vehicle pileup that killed a Bloomingdale man.
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