McHenry County Jail

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Harvard man, accused of sexually assaulting a woman while holding a kitchen knife and keeping her from calling 911, was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison.

An Elgin man with five past offenses of drunken driving was accused of driving last week in McHenry with nearly four times the legal limit of alcohol in his system.

A man accused of sexually assaulting a child over multiple years in Marengo pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

A Volo man was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to delivering the drugs that resulted in the overdose of a man who died in a McHenry hospital.

A man was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to delivering a fatal dose of fentanyl to a man who died in his father’s Lake in the Hills home.

Lake in the Hills police are seeking a man accused of adding “isopropyl alcohol” into someone’s closed beverage bottle knowing they were drinking it.

A man accused of stabbing another in the parking lot of a Crystal Lake apartment complex and stealing his satchel pleaded guilty Friday to robbery.

A man accused of shooting another man in the foot during a party in unincorporated Harvard pleaded guilty Thursday to reckless discharge of a firearm and was sentenced to two years probation.

A felon who police say injured two McHenry County sheriff's deputies during a traffic stop in Crystal Lake pleaded guilty Wednesday to unlawfully possessing a stolen gun and was sentenced to 9.5 years in prison.

A man charged with his sixth drunken-driving offense in 2020 in Huntley – who then failed to show up in court after being allowed to move to Florida – pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to seven years in prison.

A Lakemoor man is accused of possessing in his home 724.5 grams of marijuana and 142 pot plants in what is described by police as a “pretty sophisticated grow operation.”

A Crystal Lake man currently serving a five year sentence on a methamphetamine-related conviction, pleaded guilty Tuesday in a separate case involving cocaine possession and was sentenced to an additional seven years.

A man whose arrest near Wonder Lake was posted on TikTok and viewed millions of times has pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver heroin and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A Ukrainian immigrant is accused of grooming and other charges related to a 16-year-old girl he told authorities he was dating, they said.

A Crystal Lake man was found guilty for exposing himself to a child as she walked to her school bus 15 years ago Monday.

Woodstock police say a Belvidere man sexually assaulted a child in his vehicle during a two-year period, according to a criminal complaint filed in McHenry County court.

A McHenry woman pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft and was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay back her elderly victim the nearly $37,000 police say she stole while working as the woman’s caregiver.

A Northbrook man is accused of traveling to McHenry County and sexually abusing a teenager in a vehicle in exchange for vape cartridges.

A homeless man is accused of watching a video of child sexual abuse while staying at the PADS shelter in McHenry.

A Lakemoor man gave a fentanyl-laced Xanax bar to a woman and then, after finding her dead hours later, left without calling for help, authorities alleged.

A Crystal Lake man found guilty of pulling and bruising the ears of one of his former foster children was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail. He denied any abuse took place.

A Richmond man is accused of possessing “an arsenal of weapons." Authorities said he is a convicted felon and not allowed to have guns or ammunition.

A McHenry County jail inmate suffered “serious injuries” after falling down a flight of stairs Thursday morning at the jail located in Woodstock, officials report.

A Woodstock man, one of four charged in what police have described as potentially the “largest drug bust” in McHenry County history, pleaded guilty.

A Crystal Lake man who works as a pilot for United Airlines is accused of sexually assaulting a 5-year-old child whom he knows. He was released from jail pretrial but ordered to stay away from all children.

The Wonder Lake woman accused of shooting her husband at their home last week appeared in a McHenry County courtroom Wednesday and was appointed an assistant public defender.

A drug offense filed against a man in September - who swallowed a baggie of crack cocaine as Woodstock police attempted to search him - was increased and he was back in first appearance court Tuesday.

A Woodstock man is charged with aggravated battery over allegations he bruised a 3-year-old child.

A former Crystal Lake man convicted of sexually assaulting a child won a resentencing hearing based on the judge noting his lack of a statement of remorse.

A Huntley man convicted of pulling hair from a 6-year-old child’s head was sentenced to two years of probation and six weekends of intermittent jail time.

A Chicago man is accused of swindling two women in an Algonquin retail area by asking them to donate money to help “underprivileged youths” the increasing their donations tenfold, authorities allege.

A Chicago man who brought a loaded gun into the ER of a McHenry hospital pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm with a revoked FOID card.

A prosecutor said Wednesday a McHenry man was in a position of “trust and authority” when he allegedly stole $9,000 from an elderly couple for whom he was providing handyman work.

A Wisconsin man has pleaded guilty to aggravated DUI causing great bodily to his 12-year-old passenger in a crash near Richmond last year.

A McHenry woman on pretrial release for a pending drug case was arrested again this week and is charged in a new case involving drug and child endangerment offenses.

Mark and Wilma Alex met on Filipino Cupid and were married in 2015. In 2022, after she sought a divorce, she was attacked in her Crystal Lake apartment. Her now-ex-husband is accused of attempted murder.

A Woodstock man was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated DUI stemming from a crash from which authorities said he fled.

A Holiday Hills man threatened to chop up neighbors while holding an ax and a chainsaw, authorities say. His lawyer said he works as a tree cutter, which is why he had those tools.

Police said two Chicago men arrested in Crystal Lake Thursday were in the possession of nearly $750,000 worth of methamphetamine mixed with fentanyl.

A man initially charged with the fatal overdose of a woman in his Marengo home has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and received probation.

A Wonder Lake man has pleaded guilty to attacking another man with a frying pan and trying to choke him, as well as to violating the sex offender registration laws.

A man with pending charges in Missouri alleging he sexually abused two children there appeared in a McHenry County courtroom Monday on similar charges involving another child in Wonder Lake in 2006 when he was a teenager.

A Wisconsin man is accused of beating a female relative with "sheer brutality" during an altercation in a Woodstock home.

A Spring Grove woman is accused of pushing an elderly man down, leaving him on the toilet for hours and leaving him on the ground after a fall, according to a criminal complaint.

Two Chicago men are accused of posing as officials with the Federal Trade Commission and scamming a Spring Grove couple out of $60,000.