He also was ordered to pay $66,255, which includes a $5,000 fine, a $43,440 drug enforcement fee and other court costs.

The indictment was announced Wednesday by the United States Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Illinois.

Testimony sheds more light on events leading up to Daniel Gordon's death on Feb. 14, 2025, after a fight in a Rock Falls driveway.

Kyle M. Cooper, 36, is charged with murder in connection with the Feb. 14 death of Daniel J. Gordon, 27, who prosecutors say was stabbed after trying to break up an altercation between Cooper and Cooper's ex-girlfriend, who was dating Gordon.

U.S. District Judge Iain D. Johnston on Monday sentenced Julian Breal to nine years in prison.

The two men were formally charged Feb. 11, with the offenses alleged to have occurred Jan. 3, according to court records

A Whiteside County jury has found a Freeport man guilty of attempted predatory criminal sexual assault of a victim under the age of 13 in connection with a reported assault at a Sterling school playground in 2023.

Testimony got underway Wednesday in Whiteside County Circuit Court, where a now-22-year-old Freeport man is facing multiple charges of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl at a Sterling school playground two years ago.

Woman was charged Dec. 1, 2023, with one count of arson, accused of setting a car on fire in Rock Falls.