Crime and Courts

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

Casper W. Jennings, 34, of South Bend, Indiana, will remain in custody on charges of predatory criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse as his case proceeds through the court system.

Joseph Linscott must serve at least 85% of a three-year sentence.

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.

The April House Children’s Advocacy Center of Whiteside County recently purchased the building at 201 W. Market St. in Morrison from Crossroads Community Church of Morrison.

A rural Dixon man charged with attempting to murder three police officers in June will remain jailed while continuing to review evidence that will be presented as his case proceeds through the courts.

Homer Glen couple Alexa Balen and Edward Weiher are petitioning again for pretrial release in their child endangerment case following the death of the 2-year-old daughter. The hearing was continued until January.

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

After calling 50 witnesses over the last two months, prosecutors in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial rested their case

A state appeals court has removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others

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.

Alejandro Lopez, 22, is being held in Cook County jail on three counts of burglary in connection to a series of burglaries in Joliet.

An ATM technician servicing a Bank of America machine on the 200 block of North Randall Road was robbed Tuesday night

The federal judge who presided over the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers members says it would be “frightening” if the anti-government group’s founder, Stewart Rhodes, is pardoned

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.

Prosecutors allege the no-work contracts were meant as bribes to Madigan as Acevedo was a key ally in the Latino Caucus

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.

Joliet police responded to three reports of shootings late Monday night that damaged vehicles and one residence.

A man was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison for killing a man in a DUI crash on I-55 near Darien.

A top federal prosecutor wasted no time Monday revealing to the jury in ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s trial that the latest witness the government called to the stand wasn’t there voluntarily

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

A judge has refused to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity

Capping a four-year legal saga, a Kendall County judge granted Kendall County State’s Attorney Eric Weis’ motion to drop the official misconduct case against former Joliet Police Sgt. Javier Esqueda.

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 Harvard man is accused of hitting a child, causing bruising and swelling, prosecutors say.

The Illinois Supreme Court declined to issue an order to release former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson as it considers whether to hear an appeal regarding his pretrial detention

A former FBI informant is set to plead guilty to lying about a phony bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, that became central to a Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress

Kankakee Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group recovered eight firearms during a search of a Manteno man’s residence Thursday

Four women and a juvenile face felony burglary and retail theft charges alleging they stole hundreds of dollars in merchandise from the Oak Brook Nordstrom Rack store Friday night.

Prosecutors announced an indictment against a Barrington man charged with fatally shooting his estranged girlfriend last month.

An accomplice in a robbery described feeling “scared and shocked” in 2019 after their “target” was shot in the head and left lying in the parking lot of Denny’s restaurant in Joliet during testimony in a Will County courtroom on Wednesday.

The Kendall County State’s Attorney has motioned to drop his case against retired Joliet Police Sgt. Javier Esqueda almost two days before his trial was set to begin.

A Will County judge found no evidence that a Joliet man battered a police officer in October 2023 and body camera videos shows he was quickly hit with Taser after he tried complying with officers’ order to put his hands on the wall. 

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.

Gary C. Freeman, 29, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder, one count of residential arson and one count of concealment of a homicide in connection with the death of Devin K. Gibbons, 28, of Rochelle.

Rita Crundwell, the former Dixon city comptroller convicted of embezzling $53.7 million from the city – pegged as the largest municipal theft in U.S. history – is among one of roughly 1,500 people granted clemency by President Joe Biden just weeks before he leaves office.

Duane Meyer is charged with four counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated arson and one count of concealment of a homicidal death in connection with an Oct. 19, 2016, Byron house fire in which Meyer’s ex-wife, Margaret “Maggie” (Rosko) Meyer, 31, was found dead.

Prosecutors called Tom Cullen as a witness as they’re rounding out the last episode in the case against Michael Madigan

A scammer persuaded a New Lenox man to deposit $15,140 into a bitcoin machine by claiming he had been issued a warrant for missing jury duty.

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

Acevedo is the star of the last episode that prosecutors are seeking to prove in Madigan’s bribery, racketeering and extortion trial

A Kankakee man serving 32 years in prison for a 2007 conviction for attempted murder was given his freedom back Monday

An internal affairs investigation has still not begun over a Will County sheriff lieutenant’s fatal shooting of a bank hostage taker in 2022.

A 16-year-old girl has been arrested in Joliet after she was accused of stabbing a 15-year-old girl over a social media dispute, Joliet police said.

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.

A Chicago man has been arrested on a charge of recklessly firing a gun in a Oct. 3 shooting that damaged a vehicle in Joliet.