Crime

A Wood Dale man is charged with speeding through a fatal crash scene in McHenry County, according to court records.

A New Jersey man was sentenced to years in prison for targeting children on social media coercing them to send sexual images to him, prosectors say.

Five people are charged with drug possession after police executed a search warrant in Crystal Lake.

Someone burned human remains Wednesday morning near Lincoln Marsh Natural Area in Wheaton, police announced Thursday.

An arrest warrant has been issued in McHenry County for an Elgin man accused of sharing a sexual image of woman without her consent on a T-shirt and Snapchat. The shirt was printed by a Morton Grove shop, court records say.

McHenry County could soon be using AI to build court cases.

Details have emerged about allegations against an Oregon man who is accused in McHenry County court of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 13.

A Holiday Hills man was denied pretrial release after being charged with possessing cocaine with intent to sell and running from police during a traffic stop.

Through Jan. 2, law enforcement agencies across Illinois are adopting a zero-tolerance policy for impaired driving to keep motorists safe.

A man is charged with punching two police officers and spitting on a third at the Woodstock Jewel-Osco, according to court documents.

Alan Mrowka’s rights were not violated when a grand jury indicted him on a charge of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child, a McHenry County judge has ruled.

A Mundelein man has been charged in connection with his role in the death of a Wheeling man.

City of Dixon outraged after Crundwell’s prison sentence commuted by President Biden.

A Woodstock man who police said threatened to kill an officer’s children during an arrest was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison.

A juvenile has been charged with multiple felonies after he was arrested in connection with an armed robbery in Fox Lake.

A felon convicted of a 1993 Elgin murder has been sentenced to another 12 years in prison for firing a gun outside a Marengo restaurant.

A Richmond man is accused of sexually assaulting a child in 2019-2020; faced same charge in Lake County which was dismissed, his attorney said during an initial hearing appearance Friday.

The federal prison sentence of Rita Crundwell, the disgraced Dixon city comptroller who embezzled from Dixon city coffers, has been commuted by outgoing President Joe Biden.

The defendant accused of stabbing another homeless man in Woodstock has agreed to being held in McHenry County jail while awaiting trial.

A McHenry County judge will decide if a Wonder Lake man is guilty of his second or third DUI offense, given he was convicted of causing a fatal boat crash while drunk.

Lake County Major Crime Task Force members and Mundelein Police detectives are investigating the shooting death of a 21-year-old Wheeling man.

A Libertyville man has been charged in connection with attacking an acquaintance with a knife, police said.

A Crystal Lake man is accused of sharing “sexually explicit" images and messages with a 13-year-old child from Texas over Snapchat; authorities said he lied about his age.

A man pleaded guilty to possessing lewd images of a teen girl who Johnsburg and McHenry police say he met on Snapchat then traveled from Chicago Heights to see.

Prosecutors said a 70-year-old Crystal Lake man exchanged sexually explicit messages with someone he believed to be an 11-year-old child.

Man who robbed teen during would-be drug buy pleaded guilty in McHenry County and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

A man with a past felony conviction was found guilty of possessing multiple narcotics and a loaded firearm found in a McHenry home.

A felon, listed as a registered sex offender since 2003 resulting from a child pornography conviction, pleaded guilty last week to sexually assaulting a child in Wonder Lake.

Lake County Sheriff’s Detectives arrested a Lindenhurst man Dec. 4 in connection with possessing over 1,000 images and videos depicting violent child sexual abuse.

A Richmond man held in McHenry County Jail since February in connection with his teen son's overdose now faces a witness tampering charge, court records show.

A 34-year-old Wheaton man is dead after being shot Thanksgiving Day near the intersection of Clark Street and Fullerton Avenue in Chicago.

A Wonder Lake man and McHenry woman have been arrested and charged with possessing methamphetamine and other drugs as well as firearm offenses.

A homeless man found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman near the Illinois Prairie Path in 2018 has been sentenced to 66 years in prison, prosecutors said.

A Woodstock man was taken into custody this week who is accused, along with a woman, of endangering five children found in soiled diapers in a garbage-filled home.

Appearing via video, David Sosa was seen Monday, Dec. 2, 2024, in Lee County Court for a pretrial hearing for his first-degree murder charges. Sosa will be held in a juvenile facility until he turns 18 on Dec. 18 and then remanded to the Lee County jail.

Andrew Densmore of DeKalb is accused of loading up a cart with more than $3,600 in alcohol and walking out with it at McHenry's Jewel-Osco.

A woman who Crystal Lake police said committed identity theft and attempted to cash a bad check for $4,480 pleaded guilty and was sentence to five years in prison.

A Chicago man is accused of trying to use counterfeit $100 bills to make purchases in three Crystal Lake businesses; at Chick-Fil-A, the Vitamin Shoppe and Jewel-Osco.

A McHenry woman charged in connection with a drive-by shooting in Marengo has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice and was sentenced to two years probation.

A McHenry woman convicted in 2018 of embezzling nearly $67,000 from a youth sporting association now is accused of stealing more than $200,000 from a Woodstock business where she worked.

A Westmont man has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disseminating obscene materials as part of a plea deal that saw a more serious charge dismissed.

A Joliet man has died from a shooting that followed a crash along Interstate 80 at Interstate 355 near New Lenox on Monday evening.

A Crystal Lake man accused of cutting another man during a fist fight early Monday, though his lawyer said he acted in self defense.

A Harvard man accused of punching at officers and attempting to pull an AR-15-style rifle on them pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of armed violence and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Detectives identified Victor Sessoms as the suspect responsible for stealing three 12-foot lighted Christmas reindeer decorations from the loading dock of Slammers Stadium in Joliet on Nov. 11 and Nov. 12.

Since Timmy, a 5-year-old orange cat from Crystal Lake, returned home earlier this month, wounded by a bullet lodged in his spine, he has garnered national attention and raised more than $17,000 dollars to help pay for his care.

A man who crashed his vehicle into a Harvard business, injuring an employee inside, pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated reckless driving and was sentenced to 15 non-continuous days in jail and 24 months of probation.

Alexa Balen, of Homer Glen, who faces felony charges in connection with her 2-year-old daughter's death, was denied pretrial release in a Will County court on Friday.

Denzzel D. McCullum, 27, and Carlos Miller, 39, of Bolingbrook face multiple charges after New Lenox police arrested the two men after responding to a report of a stolen vehicle.

A former Lake County prosecutor, convicted in 2022 for buying liquor for a teenager he then spent time with in a Woodstock motel, will temporarily lose his law license.