Lake County Crime
-
Hearing next week for Waukegan man looking to withdraw plea deal in Gurnee fatal stabbingOct 25, 2014 1:01 am - A hearing is set to decide whether a Waukegan man who pleaded guilty but mentally ill to charges he stabbed and killed a man while in a moving car in Gurnee in August 20...
-
Northwest suburban police blotterOct 24, 2014 11:00 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
-
Bloomingdale teen sentenced for summer 2013 'crime wave'Oct 24, 2014 12:00 pm - The first member of what DuPage County Judge John Kinsella called a “two-man crime wave” that preyed on suburban businesses last summer, is headed to prison. Nicholas Pa...
-
Des Plaines man sentenced in murder-for-hire plotOct 24, 2014 1:01 am - A 51-year-old Des Plaines man was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison after pleading guilty in July to attempting to hire a hitman to kill his estranged wife and h...
-
Three charged in marijuana robbery in WheelingOct 24, 2014 1:01 am - Wheeling police arrested two men and a girl Thursday over a robbery and aggravated battery late last month in which marijuana and other items were stolen. Charged with r...
-
Lake Villa Township man sentenced to probation, periodic imprisonment for shooting neighborOct 24, 2014 1:00 am - A Lake County judge sentenced a former Lake Villa Township man to 24 months of probation and six months of periodic imprisonment for shooting his neighbor during a night...
-
Inmate charged with murder just before he was to be releasedOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - On the day he was scheduled to leave prison after serving a five-year sentence for burglary, a suburban man found out he was charged in the stabbing death of a woman 12 ...
-
Man held on $50,000 bail for Fox Lake bank theft WednesdayOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - A Fox Lake man is held in Lake County jail on $50,000 bail for entering a Grand Avenue bank, tossing a plastic bag at the teller and telling the victim to "fill it up." ...
-
Search in serial killing case comes up emptyOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - Authorities who learned that a man who confessed to killing several women whose bodies were found in abandoned buildings in Indiana may have traveled to the South suburb...
-
Beer-seeking Wheeling burglar gets four yearsOct 21, 2014 1:01 am - A Wheeling woman who entered a stranger's home and announced "I want beer" will get a four-year prison sentence instead. Convicted in September of residential burglary, ...