McHenry County Courthouse

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.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

Which school districts in the McHenry County area have announced schedule changes Wednesday because of the snow forecast?

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.

McHenry County officials are considering whether the county should buy a building that’s across the street from the courthouse in Woodstock.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

A Carpentersville man was sentenced to two years of conditional discharge after he was charged with intimidation, trespassing and resisting a police officer after police say he fled on foot through an Algonquin neighborhood.

In McHenry County, federal money has been used in far-reaching ways, helping fund roadwork, health care programs, nonprofit programs for those in need, specialty courts, workforce housing and much more.

A McHenry County judge on Thursday sentenced a McHenry man with a past felony conviction to 14 years in prison of possessing multiple narcotics and a loaded firearm found in a McHenry home.

An Oregon man was found guilty in McHenry County court of seven counts of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 13.

Three men were arrested on drug charges in a Cary home Monday night after police conducted a search warrant, officials report.

A Woodstock man remained jailed Sunday after being arrested Thursday with more than 4 ounces of methamphetamine, a loaded automatic machine gun and body armor on him.

A Round Lake man has been sentenced to two years probation in a plea deal after he arrested in Spring Grove last year with almost a pound of marijuana.

A warrant was issued Thursday for a man accused of breaking into a Woodstock apartment, stealing $300 and threatening a resident with a gun, according to McHenry County court records.

A man was denied pretrial release in McHenry County after being charged with four Class X offenses alleging he was selling “cocaine laced with fentanyl,” according to court records.

A Lindenhurst man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison in a plea deal after he was charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse and assault of a child under 18.

The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office has issued warrants for two Waukegan men who are charged with stealing “hundreds” of vases from gravestones in September in McHenry and Lake counties, officials report.

A Chicago man has been sentenced to two years of probation in a plea deal after he was charged with stealing from four cars in 2023 in Johnsburg.

The trial of a Crystal Lake man – charged with attempted murder of his wife with a hatchet and hammer – has been delayed.

An Elgin man was in custody Monday after a warrant was issued accusing him of sharing a sexual image of a woman without her consent by printing the photo on a T-shirt and sharing it on social media.

A 19-year-old Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in a plea deal after he was charged as a minor with armed robbery of a gas station in Woodstock.

The trial of a Crystal Lake man charged with attempted murder of his wife with a hatchet and hammer in 2022 in Crystal Lake is set to start Tuesday.

A man currently serving six years on a drug charge has been sentenced to five years in prison in a plea deal after he was charged with drug-induced homicide in the fatal 2021 overdose a Crystal Lake man.

A McHenry man has been sentenced to four years in prison in a plea deal after he was charged with Class X felony charges of possessing cocaine and fentanyl along with non-consensual dissemination of a sexual image.

A man currently serving 12 years in prison for firing a gun at a Marengo restaurant has been sentenced to three years in prison in a plea deal after he was charged aggravated domestic battery.

A Belvidere man is accused of firing a gun and restraining a person inside a home in Wonder Lake Tuesday night, according to court documents.