Lake County Crime
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Elgin teen faces attempted murder charge in December shootingJan 09, 2020 12:00 am - A 17-year-old from Elgin is being charged as an adult with attempted murder in the shooting of a teen girl in Elgin in early December 2019. Erik R. Lopez, of 1800 block ...
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Was driver incapacitated or steering in high-speed crash that killed teen?Jan 08, 2020 12:00 am - A collision reconstruction expert with the Park Ridge Police Department testified the car involved in a fatal crash that killed a Mount Prospect teen was traveling at 10...
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Suspect sought in attempted child abduction in Palatine Twp.Jan 08, 2020 12:00 am - Cook County sheriff's investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying a man who may have attempted to abduct two children Tuesday in Palatine Township. Acc...
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Suspect charged in September killing of 74-year-old Waukegan womanJan 08, 2020 12:00 am - A Waukegan man faces a first-degree murder charge stemming from the killing of a 74-year-old Waukegan woman in her home in September, Lake County authorities announced W...
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Demolition firm agrees to tear down AJ Freund's Crystal Lake home at no chargeJan 08, 2020 12:00 am - The Crystal Lake home where prosecutors say 5-year-old AJ Freund was killed by his parents in April could be demolished in 30 to 60 days. An offer from Green Demolition ...
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Woman charged in stabbing of a mom who was walking her child ruled unfit to stand trialJan 07, 2020 12:00 am - A Lake County judge ruled Tuesday that the 60-year-old Ingleside woman charged with stabbing a mother who was walking with her child on a Grant Woods Forest Preserve tra...
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Defense: Epileptic seizure to blame for 107 mph crash that killed 16-year-old Hersey studentJan 07, 2020 12:00 am - "Sometimes lives can change in an instant." Cook County prosecutor Michael Clarke was referring to Alyssa Lendino, a Mount Prospect teen who lost her life in a car crash...
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Former Uber driver sentenced to five years in prison for attack on passengerJan 06, 2020 12:00 am - An Elgin man and former Uber driver has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually abusing and trying to sexually assault a female passenger in 2017. Ahmed R. T...
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3 charged with burglarizing Mettawa Costco, taking $20,000 in jewelryJan 04, 2020 12:00 am - Three men located with the help of a Gurnee police dog have been charged in an early morning Saturday burglary of the Costco in Mettawa in which almost $20,000 in jewelr...
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2019's most notable suburban crimesJan 03, 2020 5:00 am - A mass shooting at an Aurora factory, a heartbreaking conclusion to a case of a missing Crystal Lake boy, a 25-year sentence for a South Barrington cold case homicide; t...