Crime & Courts | Lake County Journal
Lake County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating a fatal drive-by shooting that occurred in Ingleside.
An Elgin man has been charged after a traffic stop in Fox Lake in which drugs were found in his vehicle, police said.
Authorities said two men are suspected in a ring of thefts from Walgreens stores in Will, Kane, McHenry, Lake and Boone counties. They were allegedly found with more than $13,000 in Walgreens' product.
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.
Lake County Sheriff’s detectives have a 22-year-old Chicago man in connection with extorting and sexually assaulting a Lake County teen.
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 Cary man has been charged in connection with setting the Round Lake area home where he rented garage space on fire, police said.
A Romeoville man was charged with unlawful restraint of woman with a machete Saturday evening in Wauconda, police report.
An unincorporated Antioch woman has been charged after allegedly making a false 911 call, falsely reporting that her ex-husband shot and killed her children.