Lake County Crime
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Elgin police: Man stole BMW from driveway, sparked drunken chase before crashFeb 14, 2019 12:00 am - A McHenry man who was found not guilty of setting a homeless woman on fire after she refused to have sex with him in 2014 is now held on charges he stole a BMW from an E...
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Accuser's phone data given to Sauer attorneysFeb 13, 2019 12:00 am - Lake County prosecutors have turned over computer discs containing data pulled from the phone of one of two women accusing former state lawmaker Nick Sauer of posting th...
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Driver hits state trooper's vehicle stopped along I-94Feb 13, 2019 12:00 am - An Illinois State Police trooper was injured Tuesday when a driver struck his vehicle. The trooper was stopped on the left shoulder of the northbound lanes of Interstat...
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Chicago man charged in fatal hit-and-run crash in WaukeganFeb 13, 2019 12:00 am - A 26-year-old Chicago man is charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death stemming from a hit-and-run crash Feb. 3 in Waukegan. Abdul Baloch also fa...
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Buffalo Grove HS students win police safe driving video contestFeb 12, 2019 12:00 am - Arlington Heights police recognized a group of Buffalo Grove High School students Tuesday for producing a public service announcement to promote safe driving in the comm...
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Wheeling man charged in wife's hot tub death; police say he closed lid on herFeb 12, 2019 12:00 am - A Saturday afternoon of drinking in a hot tub for a married Wheeling couple ended with the wife dead and her husband charged in her killing, police said Tuesday. Eric Hu...
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Attorney: Woman involved in Sauer case won't allow phone to be testedFeb 11, 2019 12:00 am - An attorney for a disgraced former state legislator accused of posting nude images of two women online without their consent claims one of the women is against allowing ...
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Two men shot inside Ingleside home by masked invadersFeb 09, 2019 12:00 am - Two men were shot inside an Ingleside residence early Saturday by two armed men wearing masks who entered and demanded money, the Lake County sheriff's office said in a ...
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Lake County police dog wins national honorFeb 09, 2019 12:00 am - Dax, one of the Lake County sheriff's office police dogs, won out from among more than 100 other dogs to be named in an online poll K9s of Valor Foundation's "K9 of the ...
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Series on 'Smiley Face Killers' shines light on Elgin man's mysterious deathFeb 08, 2019 4:25 am - The Smiley Face Killers - a much-discussed, -debated and (some say) -debunked theory about a band of serial murderers targeting young men near waterways across America -...