A Crystal Lake man is accused of “repeatedly” sexually abusing and assaulting a child from 2018 through 2023, when she was between 6 and 10 years old, a McHenry County judge said.

A Crystal Lake man with two pending cases from 2021, alleging he solicited and possessed images of child sex abuse, has been detained again on new, similar charges.

A man was taken into custody outside the McHenry County courthouse Wednesday by agents wearing masks and Homeland Security vests who witnesses said smashed the window of his car before detaining him.

A man has admitted to threatening children who were riding bikes at Crystal Lake South High School and telling them that he was going to shoot them.

An IDOT worker told a Shannon woman who admitted to hitting him with her car on a Marengo roadway that although his “life has changed forever,” he forgives her.

A Kewanee man admitted in McHenry County court that he killed a woman’s cat after physically abusing the woman in Harvard following the 2023 Super Bowl.

Charges have been dismissed against two Chicago men who were accused of scamming a Spring Grove couple out of $100,000, though one of the defendants paid back half the money, officials said.

A McHenry woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $22,000 from her child’s estate and was sentenced to 30 months of "second-chance probation" – a chance to wipe it clean from her record.

An Island Lake man had been accused of viewing thousands of videos depicting child sexual abuse that one investigator called among "the worst" he'd seen. The man pleaded guilty to one video and is headed to prison.

A man accused of threatening to kill Barrington Hills police officers in a video he posted on YouTube has been found unfit to stand trial.

Raymond Link is accused of attempted murder of a woman he allegedly attacked in a McHenry park last year and of a man who tried to stop him. Link's lawyers are exploring an insanity defense, court records show.

A Florida man is accused of exposing himself to a child in a Fox River Grove park and urinating on the floor of the police station.

A man with a past violent conviction was detained after he was accused of starting a vehicle fire near Harvard and wielding a butcher knife when authorities arrived, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Police activity in Huntley Thursday related to authorities serving a search warrant in the Talamore , which led to an arrest on child sex abuse materials charges, authorities said.

An Arizona woman who traveled to McHenry County with her son – smuggling 120,000 fentanyl pills as alleged carriers for a Mexican cartel – was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison.

A car and a landscaping truck collided in Crystal Lake Wednesday.

Two people are separately suing Fun City Adventure Park in Algonquin, saying they were injured when they jumped into a foam pit. The park had past safety problems that shut it down temporarily.

Richmond police reported they responded to a call to help a Harvard man and ended up charging him with a Class X felony after he was allegedly found hiding with 28 bags of fentanyl.

A Belvidere man accused of firing a gun and restraining a woman inside a home in Wonder Lake earlier this year was sentenced to one year of conditional discharge.

An Arizona man who smuggled 120,000 fentanyl pills into McHenry County was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison. His mother was also charged and they have alleged ties to a Mexican cartel.

A man is suspected of setting a vehicle on fire near Harvard Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

A woman who police said threw a homemade “firebomb” into a Crystal Lake home at the behest of her husband is heading to prison along with him.

A man is accused of threatening to “kill everyone” at the McHenry Police Department as he was being arrested in an alleged domestic violence incident Sunday.

An Elgin man is accused of committing a “sweetheart scam” when he allegedly schemed $8,000 in cash and wheel rims worth $1,400 out of a Huntley man who has a “documented intellectual disability.”

A person was found dead in their bed in a home in Woodstock Monday afternoon.

Two people were found dead overnight Monday inside a vehicle parked with flashers on in Harvard, police said.

A man accused of burglarizing a Harvard home - and discharging a weapon when the owners showed up - is already headed to prison for a separate residential burglary in another county, court records show.

An Elgin man arrested with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.314 in McHenry last year has pleaded guilty to driving drunk for a sixth time. How much prison time did he get?

A Union woman pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with a Crystal Lake man’s fatal overdose and was sentenced to 6½ years in prison.

A man who pleaded guilty to committing arson at a Crystal Lake residence while knowing that someone was home at the time has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. His wife was also charged.

A Crystal Lake man has pleaded guilty to his fifth offense of driving under the influence of alcohol, court records show.

A Crystal Lake man has pleaded guilty to using Snapchat to solicit “sexually explicit” images from a 13-year-old child in Texas.

Court records indicate an Oakwood Hills man was accused of concealing an AR-15 outside the Crystal Lake Public Library. Police confirm the man faces gun-related charges but now say the weapon was not recovered outside the library.

A 78-year-old Crystal Lake man is accused of sexually assaulting a child in his truck nine years ago when she was 5 or 6 years old.

A man is accused of hiding an AR-15 rifle in bushes outside the Crystal Lake library near a school, court records show.

A Woodstock man who was wearing body armor and carrying a loaded machine gun when arrested pleaded guilty Friday to weapon and methamphetamine charges.

A McHenry man who was sentenced to 24 months of probation in January for choking a woman has been sent to prison for battering the same victim. He also has a pending case in Lake County.

An Elgin man allegedly hid in a Marengo barn as a SWAT team executed a search warrant on a house and his truck, where prosecutors said they found cocaine with a potential street value of $300,000.

Authorities say they've seen a "dramatic increase" in those sharing images of child sexual abuse. But officials in Kane and McHenry counties have employed technology and teamwork to track down sources of lewd images and videos of kids.

A Marengo man on parole for battering a 7-month-old child in 2014, causing a brain bleed, pleaded guilty Wednesday to strangling a woman in February.

Alan Hanke of Crystal Lake - already facing possible prison for a Ponzi scheme - was allowed to take back a plea in McHenry County court to defrauding the McHenry American Legion.

A former Lake in the Hills woman who was accused of abducting her own child and leaving the Woodstock DCFS office, was sentenced Friday to two years probation in the case.

Six inmates who were traveling in a McHenry County Sheriff’s Office bus during a collision have sued the county, the driver and the other motorist involved, claiming negligence and carelessness.

A Lake Villa man was sentenced to prison after going on a “reign of terror” in the McHenry area on night in 2023 – firing a gun, damaging properties, fleeing police and stealing vehicles in and around McHenry two years ago.

An Ingleside woman was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for the fatal head-on crash she caused while authorities said she was under the influence of marijuana.

A Crystal Lake 18-year-old illegally carried around a loaded, defaced gun for months while “dealing drugs,” authorities allege - but his attorney blasts law change that prevents cash bail.

A South Elgin man admitted Thursday that he sexually assaulted a 10-year-old Harvard girl and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A Chicago man accused of possessing hundreds of grams of fentanyl and cocaine when arrested in Algonquin after fleeing police in Crystal Lake was sentenced Friday to 14 1/2 years in prison.

Harvard police are seeking man who they said fled from them Saturday night after allegedly shoving a pistol at a teen during an argument.

Officers had to give the suspect in a string of crimes in the Algonquin area two doses of Narcan when he was found unresponsive in a backyard, authorities said.