Will County Sheriff's Office

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

Theodore Broduer, former chief executive officer of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Will and Grundy counties, has been indicted in Will County on felony theft charges.

Public safety was prioritized in the Will County 2025 fiscal year budget, with public safety and judicial operations making up 62% of the county’s operating budget.

A Homer Glen business owner who makes $555,000 a year is asking a judge to let him out of jail in a case where he’s charged with endangering a child who died from a suspected drug overdose inside a “million-dollar home.”

A Will County judge granted the pretrial release of a Plainfield Township man accused of pistol whipping a woman and barricading himself in an incident that drew a major police response.

Devin Nier, 42, was arrested on Friday and charged with aggravated battery, and domestic battery, after barricading himself inside a home in unincorporated Plainfield Township Friday morning.

A man is in custody after keeping himself barricaded inside his Plainfield Township home for about two hours on Friday. Joliet, Plainfield and Will County police responded after getting a 911 call from a woman inside the home.

Denzzel D. McCullum, 27, and Carlos Miller, 39, of Bolingbrook face multiple charges after New Lenox police arrested the two men after responding to a report of a stolen vehicle.

A fight at the Will County Adult Detention Center left one inmate hospitalized after he was beaten with a sock full of soap.

A Will County judge blocked the jail release of a Homer Glen father and business owner charged with endangering his child who died from a suspected overdose death in a $1 million home that was completely trashed.

A Homer Glen father and mother are facing a felony charge of endangering the life and health of a 2-year-old child who died after becoming “unresponsive” in a filthy residence containing garbage and evidence of drug use, police said.

A special prosecutor dropped a driving under the influence charge against a Will County sheriff’s deputy who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor speeding.

A Will County judge found a Florida woman guilty of aggravated battery and hate crime of a pregnant Black woman in 2020 at a Homer Glen banquet hall.

Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow encourages residents to report any election irregularities to the county’s election fraud hotline on Tuesday. The election fraud hotline number is 815-727-8872.

Democrats have maintained their hold over the Will County Coroner’s Office for 36 years and a Republican will once again try to win the office in Tuesday’s election.

A Joliet man convicted of concealing evidence in a 2017 flare-gun attack incident that killed two women and a baby was briefly jailed on a charge alleging he trespassed at the courthouse.

The Will County Sheriff’s Office said it has been informed that residents have received calls claiming they missed jury duty or have a warrant out for their arrest. This is a scam.

A Will County judge will not allow a Joliet man charged with a gang-fueled 2021 mass shooting on Halloween to use cash bail to secure his pretrial release from jail.

A new judge assigned to the Joliet Halloween party mass shooting case may decide on Monday whether to release the defendant charged with murder. He was not let out of jail despite a pretrial release order from another judge.

A Lockport Township couple’s flag of Palestine was ripped apart by an unknown suspect on Oct. 12 and they believe it was possible hate crime.

A Florida woman is on trial in Will County on charges alleging she called a pregnant Black woman a racist slur, battered her and then battered two Will County sheriff’s deputies outside a Homer Glen banquet facility.

Will County sheriff’s deputies had guns drawn and shields up as they searched abandoned properties near Siegel’s Cottonwood Farm in Crest Hill and arrested two men on burglary charges.

A 34-year-old woman was shot in the back about two weeks ago in Joliet Township and potential witnesses refused to speak with deputies investigating the incident, police said.

Will County sheriff’s police and Crest Hill police were searching the area on Weber Road in the area of Siegel’s Cottonwood Farm on Monday afternoon.

Gregory A. McCallum, 65, was pronounced deceased at 3:53 a.m. Monday at the Brandon Road Quarry located in the 1400 Block of Brandon Road in Joliet Township, according to the Will County Coroner’s Office.

Another two-vehicle crash on Wilmington-Peotone Road on Thursday in Peotone Township has resulted in a female driver’s death. The last fatal crash on the roadway occurred on Monday.

A Joliet couple was sentenced to 48 months of probation and ordered to pay $20,573 in restitution after they pleaded guilty to stealing from Plainfield American Legion Marne Post 13 Legion Riders.

The U.S. Senate has passed a resolution honoring a Muslim child who was stabbed to death in Plainfield Township in October 2023.

No citations were issued to the semitrailer driver involved in the deadly crash in Will County. The intersection where the crash occurred only has stop signs on South Center Road.

A woman was killed in a crash near Peotone in Will County after her vehicle was struck by a semitrailer, police said.

A jury trial is set for next February for a former Plainfield Township landlord charged with killing a Muslim child and attempting to kill his mother based on their Islamic faith.

A Joliet man was arrested after he was accused of firing a gun following an argument between him and his daughter’s boyfriend, police said. No one was injured in the incident.

The skeletal remains of a 1968 homicide victim in Wilmington Township has been exhumed and sent to a company based in Texas for DNA analysis and a possible genealogy match.

A pilot of a glider plane suffered minor injuries after he was forced to make an emergency landing in Wilmington, according to a Will County sheriff's deputy chief.

The Will County Clerk’s Office determined an image of a Facebook post about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump that was attributed to an election judge was a “manipulated image” and not real.

A Lockport Township man who was previously convicted of possessing an AK-47 rifle has been arrested again on charges alleging he possessed a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic handgun in a vehicle.

A young Joliet man has been charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery of a 19-year-old man earlier this summer in Joliet Township. The suspect was apprehended in Gary, Indiana.

Anyone with information the missing teen should contact Will County Sheriff’s Detective Josh Lane by phone at 815-727-8574, extension 4948

A New Lenox man is charged with a Joliet shooting where he allegedly said he fired 30 rounds from a Glock firearm enhanced with a switch device, according to Will County prosecutors.

A Will County lawsuit claims a New Lenox Township trustee subjected a woman to doxing and defamation with a fake post published on a Republican Facebook group.

Defense attorneys in a case linked to a Joliet shooting spree are awaiting "enormous" discovery from multiple states. A Joliet police spokesman said their investigation of the shooting is finished but motive "still unclear."

A grand jury has indicted a Joliet man on charges alleging he was driving under the influence of alcohol in a July 28 crash that led to the death of a woman in Beecher.

The speed enforcement effort was conducted by the Will County Sheriff’s Office and other state and local law enforcement agencies across Illinois.

The U.S. Attorney's Office sent a "large quantity of discovery" to Will County prosecutors who are handling the Plainfield Township hate crime murder case against a landlord, court records show.

Jayden Velazquez-Garcia, 19, of Plainfield, was identified as the man who died from the shooting on Wednesday, according to the Will County Coroner’s Office.

A high-speed chase of a suspect in Joliet and Interstate 80 led to the collision of two police vehicles and the suspect’s vehicle to flip over in a separate crash, police said.

A Joliet man asking for money was accused of punching a woman who declined to give him cash and threatening to shoot officers who arrested him, prosecutors said.

After 3 tornadoes touchdown in Will County, thousands of residents remain without power. Will County Emergency Management Agency is working with ComEd to get service back. Salvation Army, Red Cross working to assist people.

On Aug. 23, a Will County judge will decide the sentence for a Joliet couple who pleaded guilty to stealing money from Plainfield American Legion Marne Post 13 Legion Riders.

Will County Board Republican Leader Steve Balich on Tuesday accused his Democratic counterpart of hacking into his email. Democratic Leader Jacqueline Traynere said she uncovered a vulnerability in the county board email system.