Cook County Crime
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Man who invaded home, shot man over ounce of marijuana and $10 gets 13 years in prisonAug 01, 2019 1:00 am - A 30-year-old Elgin man was sentenced to 13½ years in prison this week after admitting to his role in an Elgin home invasion in which a man was shot over an ounce of mar...
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Cook County sheriff's office arrests 45 as part of national sex-trafficking stingJul 31, 2019 1:00 am - Cook County sherriff's police arrested 45 suspected johns as part of a nationwide five-week, anti-trafficking operation that led to the arrest of more than 500 suspected...
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Authorities: Elgin man used dating app to set up armed robberyJun 25, 2019 1:00 am - A 20-year-old man has been arrested and charged with using a dating app to rob a man of $50 at gunpoint in Elgin earlier this year, according to authorities and court re...
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Chicago man arrested at Arlington Heights area hotel on prostitution chargeMay 24, 2019 1:00 am - A 31-year-old Chicago man has been charged with promoting prostitution and being an armed habitual criminal after being arrested with a loaded gun at an Arlington Height...
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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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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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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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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...