Arrest

A Sterling man is charged with several weapon and drug violations accusing him of being armed while possessing cannabis and intending to deliver the drug.

His plea and sentence came 19 days after a Nov. 3 chase through Oregon.

A rural Dixon man charged with attempting to murder three police officers in June was presented Thursday with 770 pages of police reports, medical records and other evidence that will be presented as his case proceeds through the courts.

A Dixon man has been sentenced to 6 years in prison on a criminal sexual assault charge that accused him of having sexual contact with a 12-year-old girl 30 years ago.

Steven W. Coleman, 45, was sentenced Oct. 17 to three consecutive life sentences and another 105 years in prison for setting a fatal fire at the Western Apartments in Sterling. He was in court Thursday asking for that sentence to be reconsidered.

Harrison Webb, charged with attempted murder, is accused of walking from his Rock Falls home to Sterling, going into the restaurant’s kitchen, and with less than two feet separating them, shooting a 17-year-old worker in the back of the neck.

According to a Dixon Police Department news release, John D. Mowery, 41, was taken into custody Tuesday, Nov. 12.

The 17-year-old boy, whose name was not released by authorities because he is a juvenile, also is charged with aggravated battery with a firearm, felony burglary and unlawful possession of a stolen firearm.

Despite his insistence that he is a changed man, a Rock Falls felon was sentenced to up to 18 years in prison Wednesday in connection with a December 2023 standoff at a Dixon hotel.

Johnathon P. Parker is being held in the Whiteside County Jail.

Johnathon P. Parker, 40, is wanted for one count of aggravated battery with a firearm, according to a news release.

Brandon S. Miller is accused of taking deer illegally in Ogle and Lee counties

Sterling police detective says during Monday preliminary hearing that investigation continues into whether more people will be charged.

A motion was approved Friday to deny pre-trial release for an Elmhurst man charged with fleeing from police and injuring an officer during his arrest, prosecutors said.

Jaedyn Hill was found dead in her apartment in Ashton.

Brett Cahoone charged with nine counts, remains jailed in Whiteside County.

Court documents: David Sosa walked 11 miles from his Ashton apartment to Rochelle to turn himself in to police, admitted he strangled 16-year-old Jaedyn Hill to death at their shared residence.

A motion for pre-trial release was denied Tuesday for a Naperville woman accused of crashing a school bus that transports special needs children, prosecutors said.

Joliet Police have arrested a man wanted for the armed robbery of a pizza delivery driver in December 2023.

Arrest made Monday after the Ogle County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Unit, with the assistance of the Oregon Police Department, executed a search warrant.

A former commissioner for the Housing Authority of Joliet has pleaded not guilty to a felony drug charge. He was arrested twice this year in Joliet.

A 56-year-old Leaf River woman who police say went after the same person three times in eight days is charged with aggravated battery.

Christian Mikolaitis was charged with attempted murder Monday after allegedly stabbing a Lockport resident Sunday night and leading multiple police departments on a pursuit down I-80.

Bond was reduced Monday for a 46-year-old Dixon man who the Ogle County sheriff said attacked three of his deputies, breaking some bones, and who had to be subdued with a taser device.

A DeKalb man was charged with home invasion and other crimes after he allegedly forced his way into a woman’s hotel room, where her children were present, on Sunday morning, according to a Sycamore Police news release.

Arrests made Sunday after the Lee County Sheriff’s Office received information that there was an underage drinking party occurring in the area of Carter Road and Todd Road in southern Lee County.

A Plainfield man was arrested Tuesday and charged with public indecency while managing a Downers Grove restaurant, authorities said

Michael A. Gaston, 67, of Forreston, was arrested on May 2 and charged on six counts of criminal sexual assault, according to police.

A server at Star Cinema Grill in Bolingbrook was struck in the head with a billiard ball and punched, police said. Two women have been charged with the attack.

A woman facing charges of Paycheck Protection Program loan fraud was arrested after she was accused of striking two women with a vehicle at Sidelines Sports Bar in Joliet, police said.

The suspect in a Jan. 3 shooting in Joliet who's accused of causing damage to a woman’s vehicle and a residence, was arrested with nine other suspects in unrelated cases on Thursday in what the Joliet Police Department called, "Operation New Year’s Resolution.”

Jeremy G. Jones, 41, of Byron, who is accused of running over one person with his car and stabbing another on New Year’s Eve, is set to appear on court on Wednesday.

A woman was arrested after she was accused of pointing a gun at a female tenant of Victory Centre of Joliet, police said.

Officers responded to a report of a man struck by a vehicle at East Washington Street and South Hebbard Street in Joliet, police said.

An indictment filed in Will County accused a man of fraudulently obtaining a $20,832 Paycheck Protection Program loan and fraudulently obtaining $2,388 in unemployment benefits.

A 48-year-old man has been arrested on first-degree murder charges of a woman who was found shot to death in Joliet, police said.

Georvantae Johnson, 25, was arrested on charges alleging he shot and wounded a man in 2019 in Joliet. The victim had been struck in the right hand and groin area in the incident, police said.

Condition of victim described as 'non-life threatening'

After officers conducted a traffic stop in Joliet, Christopher Walsh emerged from his vehicle, allegedly yelling at officers, police said. Officers later found two loaded handguns in his vehicle, police said.

A 16-year-old Morris man was charged with six counts of first-degree murder after shooting a Shorewood woman twice in the back of the head, according to Assistant State’s Attorney Russel Baker.

The events leading up to the arrest the woman and her boyfriend when officers responded to a report of a disturbance at the Pilot Travel Center in Joliet, police said.

A 19-year-old man was charged with unlawfully possessing a handgun after he allegedly went into a CVS drug store this week with a loaded .380-caliber handgun that had a defaced serial number, Joliet police said.

The Morris Police Department has cracked the case of a pickpocket targeting shoppers at local stores