Crime News
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Prosecutors: Teens stabbed, burned, ran over victim in West Chicago murder
Aug 16, 2018 9:42 PM - Bail was denied Thursday for two DuPage County teenagers in connection with the armed robbery and murder of an 18-year-old man whose badly burned body was found under a smoldering blanket this week in West Chicago. A third person was charged with concealment of a homicidal death. -
Wanted Barrington man arrested in Mundelein for aggravated domestic batteryAug 16, 2018 8:08 PM - A Barrington man and documented street gang member was arrested in Mundelein on felony charges related to a domestic dispute, authorities said.
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No increased bail for woman charged in murder-for-hire
Aug 16, 2018 6:55 PM - A DuPage County judge Thursday denied prosecutors attempts to increase the bail for a 31-year-old nurse accused of paying a dark web hitman to have her lover's wife killed. Prosecutors filed a petition to revoke Tina Jones' $250,000 bail, claiming a court-ordered drug test showed traces of opioids. Jones' attorney, Stephen Hall, however, suggested the failed test may have been the result of some Nyquil Jones had taken. -
Probation, treatment for former Naperville firefighter with 12,000 child porn images
Aug 16, 2018 4:59 PM - A former Naperville firefighter who authorities say had more than 12,000 images of child pornography on three compueters was sentenced Thursday to four years of specialized probation. "I'm willing to take a chance on you that you're going to continue with your treatment," a judge told Louis J. DiGrazia IV. -
Arlington Heights police cite 56 at roadside checkpointAug 16, 2018 2:01 PM - Arlington Heights police issued 56 citations following a roadside safety checkpoint Aug. 10 at Rand Road and Beverly Lane.
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Olympic gymnasts Ross and Kocian: we were abused by Nassar
Aug 16, 2018 8:48 AM - Olympic gold-medal winning gymnasts Kyla Ross and Madison Kocian say they are among the sexual abuse victims of disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar
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Police: Patient, 20, tried to kill Elgin psychiatrist with steak knife
Aug 16, 2018 8:11 AM - A Crystal Lake man is being held on $250,000 bail on allegations he attacked his psychiatrist with a knife at her Elgin office last week when she refused to write him a prescription for medical marijuana. -
Report: Church officials helped ex-priest get job at Disney World knowing he was 'sexual predator'
Aug 16, 2018 6:20 AM - For 15 years, a man reportedly piloting trains at Walt Disney World in Orlando kept a dark secret locked away.
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Investigation continues in case of body found in smoldering blanket
Aug 16, 2018 5:37 AM - DuPage County and local law enforcement agencies remain tight-lipped about the discovery of a body found in West Chicago. -
Antioch man charged in dispute about July 4 fireworks
Aug 15, 2018 6:10 PM - An Antioch man accused of firing a gun into the air on the Fourth of July to intimidate his disgruntled neighbors has been charged.
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