McHenry County Courthouse

A Wauconda man is accused of more than 5,000 grams of marijuana and nearly half a pound of the hallucinogen peyote found in a bus and suitcase in McHenry County, prosecutors say.

A McHenry man accused last year of slashing a relative in the face and head will now go to trail after courts determined him fit after six months of treatment.

A 78-year-old Trout Valley man is accused of possessing images of child sexual abuse and destroying flash drives of evidence.

An Oakwood Hills woman is accused of hitting her mother and disturbing employees at the Crystal Lake TJ Maxx, according to a criminal complain in McHenry County court.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A Woodstock man who police said threatened to kill an officer’s children during an arrest was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison.

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.

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 Crystal Lake man is accused of sharing “sexually explicit" images and messages with a 13-year-old child from Texas over Snapchat; authorities said he lied about his age.

A man pleaded guilty to possessing lewd images of a teen girl who Johnsburg and McHenry police say he met on Snapchat then traveled from Chicago Heights to see.

Prosecutors said a 70-year-old Crystal Lake man exchanged sexually explicit messages with someone he believed to be an 11-year-old child.

Man who robbed teen during would-be drug buy pleaded guilty in McHenry County and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

A Crystal Lake attorney’s law license will be temporarily suspended after a finding by state regulators that he “misappropriated” more than $74,000 from his client trust account.

A man with a past felony conviction was found guilty of possessing multiple narcotics and a loaded firearm found in a McHenry home.

A felon, listed as a registered sex offender since 2003 resulting from a child pornography conviction, pleaded guilty last week to sexually assaulting a child in Wonder Lake.

A Richmond man held in McHenry County Jail since February in connection with his teen son's overdose now faces a witness tampering charge, court records show.

As lawsuits continue for over two years, the village continues to take steps to take ownership over the abandoned 100-unit apartment complex in Fox River Grove.

A Wonder Lake man and McHenry woman have been arrested and charged with possessing methamphetamine and other drugs as well as firearm offenses.

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.

Andrew Densmore of DeKalb is accused of loading up a cart with more than $3,600 in alcohol and walking out with it at McHenry's Jewel-Osco.

A woman who Crystal Lake police said committed identity theft and attempted to cash a bad check for $4,480 pleaded guilty and was sentence to five years in prison.

A Chicago man is accused of trying to use counterfeit $100 bills to make purchases in three Crystal Lake businesses; at Chick-Fil-A, the Vitamin Shoppe and Jewel-Osco.

A McHenry woman charged in connection with a drive-by shooting in Marengo has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice and was sentenced to two years probation.

A McHenry woman convicted in 2018 of embezzling nearly $67,000 from a youth sporting association now is accused of stealing more than $200,000 from a Woodstock business where she worked.

A Crystal Lake man accused of cutting another man during a fist fight early Monday, though his lawyer said he acted in self defense.

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.

Since Timmy, a 5-year-old orange cat from Crystal Lake, returned home earlier this month, wounded by a bullet lodged in his spine, he has garnered national attention and raised more than $17,000 dollars to help pay for his care.

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 McHenry man admitted Wednesday he “intentionally tortured” his 4-month old puppy, a husky named Piper, last year and was sentenced to two years in prison.

A Crystal Lake man pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol.

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.

A McHenry County judge issued an arrest warrant Monday for a man accused of posing as a black car driver, driving a woman from an airport to McHenry and then refusing to let her out of the car her until she gave him $1,400.

One of two people charged last year in connection with what Marengo police described as a drive-by shooting where two children were in the vehicle pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to eight 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 Spring Grove woman who admitted to leaving the scene of a crash where she killed a man was sentenced Thursday to two years probation. The man’s brother said the sentence “is an insult.”

A woman admitted Thursday to stealing more than $6,000 from a Harvard packaging corporation and was sentenced to two years probation. She was also ordered to pay restitution.

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.