Lake County Crime
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Suburban cold cases solved and unsolved: How DNA has played a role so farJan 13, 2023 4:00 am - Despite thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews and untold hours of investigation, it took nearly a decade - and a couple of strokes of luck - for police to arrest th...
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Sheriffs draw lines at what they will - and will not - enforce with new weapons lawJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg had a message for gun owners concerned about Illinois' new ban on the purchase, sale and manufacture of some high-powered weapons and l...
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Lake County sheriff responds to racist comments in wake of his stance on weapons banJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - A Facebook post by Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg Thursday night expressing his support for the state's ban on high-powered weapons prompted more than 2,000 comments,...
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Top crime stories of 2022: Mayhem and heartbreak defined the year in suburban crimeJan 12, 2023 5:00 am - A mass shooting on July 4 in Highland Park, during which a lone shooter stood atop a building firing nearly 90 rounds at parade spectators and participants, shocked the ...
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Judge allows case to remove Algonquin Twp. trustee to move forwardJan 12, 2023 12:00 am - A case that will decide whether an Algonquin Township trustee with a 30-year-old felony can stay in his role will move forward after a McHenry County judge denied a requ...
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Wheeling ride-share driver pleads guilty to battery of female passengerJan 11, 2023 12:00 am - A Wheeling ride-share driver has pleaded guilty to the May 2019 aggravated battery/strangulation of a female passenger. Alexander Sowa, 38, pleaded guilty to the charge...
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Two dead after wrong-way crash near GurneeJan 09, 2023 12:00 am - Two men are dead following an early morning wrong-way crash Monday on Route 41 near Gurnee. Lake County sheriff's office investigators said a 32-year-old Grayslake man w...
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Wisconsin kidnapping suspect caught after high-speed chase from Wadsworth to Spring GroveJan 07, 2023 12:00 am - A Twin Lakes, Wisconsin man sought on a warrant for kidnapping was taken into custody at his father's home Thursday evening, hours after fleeing his vehicle following a ...
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Lake County top prosecutor lobbies state legislators to pass assault weapon banJan 06, 2023 4:00 am - Lake County State's Attorney Eric Rinehart added his voice Thursday to those urging state legislators to pass a ban on so-called assault weapons before the legislative s...
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After more than 2 years, Round Lake Beach police find suspect in fatal crashJan 06, 2023 12:00 am - A 28-year-old Round Lake Beach man with an arrest warrant for his role in a 2020 DUI crash that killed two people is now behind bars after being apprehended by police re...