Crime

A motion was granted Friday to deny pre-trial release for a Chicago man accused of possessing more than 100 grams of illegal narcotics and leading police on a high-speed chase, prosecutors said.

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for robbing a 7-Eleven store in Elmhurst.

Following a four-month long investigation, a Plainfield man has been arrested and charged with possessing child sexual abuse images.

A Harvard man who led police on a high-speed chase before officers found marijuana, LSD and nearly $14,000 in his vehicle was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Kankakee County Sheriff's investigators make second arrest in January shooting of 19-year-old man in rural Limestone.

A motion was granted Thursday to revoke pre-trial release for a Bloomingdale man newly charged with possessing a stolen car, prosecutors said.

The former president of a McHenry girls softball league has pleaded guilty to stealing $16,000 from the league and was sentenced to two years probation.

A motion to deny pre-trial release for a two-time convicted felon who was allegedly in possession of a loaded handgun was granted Wednesday, prosecutors said.

A man filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital, saying a surgical sponge was left inside his neck for four months, court records show.

Kyle M. Cooper, 36, of Rock Falls, is being held in the Whiteside County Jail in Morrison on a first-degree murder charge as well as two counts of aggravated battery in connection with the Feb. 14 stabbing death of Daniel J. Gordon.

A registered child sex offender solicited a child through Snapchat to send him “indecent” images, Lake in the Hills police and prosecutors said.

A trial date has been set for Xandria Harris for the death of Bradley Police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic and seriously wounding of retired Sgt. Tyler Bailey in December 2021.

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

A crash Sunday shut down some lanes of Route 31 in the Crystal Lake area.

Two men accused of selling more than 25 grams of fentanyl-laced cocaine twice in May to an undercover informant are seeking pretrial release from the McHenry County jail.

A motion has to detain two out-of-state men accused of breaking into and stealing more than $135,000 worth of merchandise from the Rogers & Holland Jewelers at Yorktown Mall in Lombard

According to a news release, Rock Falls police were dispatched at 1:50 a.m. Friday, Feb. 14, for a reported stabbing in the 600 block of West 20th Street in Rock Falls.

A California who man admitted Thursday to scamming a Crystal Lake woman out of $30,000 was sentenced to two years conditional discharge and ordered to pay her back.

Prosecutors said Thursday a Wisconsin man sexually assaulted a woman in her McHenry home while she was unconscious and he filmed it.

A Crystal Lake man has admitted to delivering cocaine and was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Oswego police are looking for the two men who allegedly robbed George’s Liquor and Wine store at gunpoint Tuesday night.

Thirty buses at Troy School District 30-C were rendered inoperative after the catalytic converters were stolen from them.

A man accused of selling nearly 29 grams of cocaine to a confidential informant last year in a Crystal Lake parking lot was released from jail Monday pretrial.

A Crystal Lake man pleaded guilty to possessing video depicting child sex abuse and was sentenced to 24 months on sex offender probation.

Testimony in the case against LeAndrew T. Adams, 22, is slated to begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, at the Whiteside County Courthouse in Morrison.

The Kankakee County Sheriff’s Department arrested three men who allegedly invaded a home, tied up the victim and got away with numerous items Monday.

A Wonder Lake man was involved in a fatal drunken boating crash in 2008. He just got jail time on more recent DUI charge, but the boating crash didn't factor in as a prior DUI.

Attorneys for a woman, accused of DUI of marijuana in a crash that killed an Elmhurst resident, are trying to throw out the toxicology tests, arguing labs incorrectly measured the drug in her body.

A Harvard man is sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13, court records show.

A Wonder Lake man has been detained on charged that he sold an unserialized machine gun to a Woodstock who allegedly was found with the gun, body armor and drugs last month.

A Harvard man has been sentenced to eight years in prison in a plea deal after he fired a gun near Woodstock Square in 2023. The same man had been arrested just two days before that.

A Chicago man on federal probation was sentenced to 22 years in prison for robbing a Glendale Heights business in April 2023, prosecutors said.

Cara and Eric Ullrich were both charged in the death of Trent Ullrich, 14, who overdosed on fentanyl and a dangerous animal tranquilizer – drugs authorities said his mother had bought for herself.

Peotone police announced Thursday that a suspect in the robbery at the Peotone Travel Center in January was arrested by the U.S. Marshal Task Force this week.

Jason E. Johnson, 52, was sentenced in Lee County Circuit Court to 60 years in prison for predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and a consecutive 7-year prison sentence for aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

A Harvard man was sentenced to six years in prison after police found baggies of fentanyl and cocaine hidden in an air duct in his bedroom last year.

A rural Dixon man charged with the attempted murder of three police officers at his residence in June will remain jailed.

Gregory R. Tuggle was indicted by a Kankakee County grand jury Thursday for the charges of attempted murder in the first degree, home invasion and aggravated battery with a firearm.

A Harvard man is sentenced to six years in prison in connection to a shooting at a gas station in Harvard in 2023 that left one person wounded.

A former employee at an alternative school in North suburban Gages Lake has been arrested on allegations she had an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old student while she worked there, authorities announced Thursday.

Attorneys for former Iroquois County Public Health administrator Dee Ann Schippert argued in a motion that her allegedly gambling for more than 750 hours while claiming to be on the clock for her job is not relevant to the charges against her.

Steven Foulk of Island Lake man has pleaded guilty to aggravated driving under the influence in connection to a 2021 motorcycle-vehicle crash in McHenry that killed Kenneth Jackson.

Jeffrey Hauck, imprisoned for the fatal overdose of Stephanie Phillippi in Crystal Lake, was paroled in December and found dead Jan. 30.

A Huntley man faces 10 charges of possessing sexual images of children younger than 13.

A Harvard man is accused of punching security guard in the face at The Mac Sports Center in Crystal Lake, court records show.

A Spring Grove man has been sentenced to four years in prison in a plea deal after he was accused of possessing 20.1 grams of cocaine, more than 1,200 grams of marijuana gummies and six commercial-grade fireworks.

A Huntley man has been sentenced to conditional discharge after he was accused of cruelty to dozens of animals, including a turtle, 17 cats and a dog.

An 18-year-old Chicago man was arrested Wednesday after he was charged in the theft of an Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio from a Crystal Lake dealership last year.

A Wonder Lake resident is sentenced to two years probation in a plea deal after being charged with multiple felony counts of aggravated battery to police officers in October, including punching, biting and kicking one officer in the “groin area."

A Woodstock man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in a plea deal after he was charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a child.