Lake County Crime
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Fox Lake woman charged with stabbing former boyfriendDec 04, 2021 12:00 am - A 29-year-old Fox Lake woman is being held on $750,000 bail Saturday after police said she stabbed her former boyfriend late Friday afternoon. Kylie Fecht is charged wit...
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Fatal Buffalo Grove shooting: What kind of training do suburban cops get on mental health issues?Dec 03, 2021 12:00 am - A day after the police-involved fatal shooting of a man in mental distress in Buffalo Grove, a law enforcement educator detailed the type of training police throughout t...
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'He was hurting and he needed help,' mom of man firing guns and killed by Buffalo Grove police saysDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - A man firing two guns was shot and killed by Buffalo Grove police early Thursday, in what is the first officer-involved shooting in the village's history, authorities sa...
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Former Cook County sheriff's deputy facing drug trafficking chargesDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - A former Cook County sheriff's deputy is being held on $1 million bail in Will County after being charged with multiple drug trafficking counts, state authorities announ...
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Cook County medical examiner's office passes 1,000th homicide for 2021Nov 30, 2021 12:00 am - The Cook County medical examiner's office on Tuesday confirmed the county's 1,000th homicide this year occurred over the Thanksgiving weekend. The county's homicide tot...
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Investigators believe Gurnee shooting victim was targetedNov 29, 2021 12:00 am - Investigators believe the deadly shooting of a Zion man near Gurnee Mills mall over the weekend was a targeted act, not random violence, an official with the Lake County...
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Police pursuing leads in deadly shooting near Gurnee MillsNov 28, 2021 12:00 am - Investigators continue to pursue leads, including from video surveillance footage, in the hunt for the killer of a 26-year-old Zion man fatally shot Saturday in a parkin...
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Sheriff's police investigate carjacking in Green OaksNov 27, 2021 12:00 am - Lake County sheriff's police are searching for suspects involved in a Saturday morning carjacking in Green Oaks. Two men approached a 42-year-old man who had parked his ...
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Suburban lawmaker says there's a 'war on police.' Will his proposals help?Nov 26, 2021 4:30 am - According to data released by the FBI this fall, 60,105 law enforcement officers were assaulted in the line of duty in 2020 - up 4,071 from 2019 - and nearly a third of ...
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Cary man charged with traveling to meet minor at Shorewood storeNov 26, 2021 12:00 am - Prosecutors have charged a Cary man with traveling to a store in Shorewood to meet who he thought was a 15-year-old girl to engage in unlawful sexual conduct. On Monday,...