Crime

Forty of 47 cats found living for months in an “unsanitary” U-Haul van in Island Lake had to be euthanized, officials said; their owners pleaded guilty to animal cruelty.

Eduardo Roman of Crystal Lake is accused of advertising drugs to minors online and selling drugs and guns out of his home, authorities say.

A Woodridge man accused of killing a bicyclist while driving drunk and then fleeing the scene was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison.

A 54-year-old Chicago man is charged with first-degree murder after authorities said he spat on a Glendale Heights woman and stabbed her in the back Thursday near a CTA green line stop in Chicago.

A motion to deny pre-trial release for a Lombard man accused of crashing into another vehicle after fleeing from police at a high rate of speed, prosecutors said.

A man pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a McHenry County child younger than 13 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A Fox Lake man is facing charges in connection with an attack on an elderly man April 12, police said.

A McHenry County judge told Eric Ullrich Friday he showed no remorse and minimized his role in the fatal overdose of his son in his home near Richmond. Ullrich received a 12-year sentence but will serve much less time.

A Chicago man has pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing nearly $750,000 in methamphetamine and fentanyl when he was arrested in a Crystal Lake motel parking lot last year.

A Will County judge Thursday granted a two-year, no-contact order against a Neuqua Valley High School English teacher accused of grooming and sexually abusing a 16-year-old student.

Troy A. Sample, of Manteno, was arrested Wednesday by Manteno police following a week-long investigation into allegations involving the unlawful recording of a minor.

Jurors heard a recording Tuesday of a woman crying and saying “stop” when she said an Island Lake man sexually assaulted her late on Christmas Eve 2021.

A warrant was issued for a Sean Fitzpatrick, who failed to show up for his trial on charges of stealing cars from a Marengo home, court records show.

Six people are in custody after Downers Grove police say a woman was the victim of an armed robbery Tuesday night.

An Island Lake man, who admitted along with a Glenview woman to cruelly housing 46 cats in a U-Haul truck for months, began serving his 40-day jail sentence last week.

A Wisconsin man was sentenced to six years in prison for passing off a fake cashier’s check for $11,900 when buying a car in McHenry.

A Georgia man is facing federal charges for threatening a spiritual mission based in West Chicago.

The niece of a man killed during a confrontation with Carol Stream police last year has pleaded guilty to making threats against officers during a protest over the deadly shooting.

A Plainfield man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a man more than 10 times during a fight in Joliet, according to police.

A man pleaded guilty and got jail and probation in the fatal overdose of a Hebron man, but the man's sister said justice wasn't done.

A Woodstock man and former McHenry County-area firefighter pleaded guilty Thursday to violating an order of protection and electronic harassment and got probation. He called and emailed threats to woman hundreds of times, authorities say.

A Woodstock man was convicted of sexually assaulting a girl, despite denying the allegations from the witness stand.

A Homer Glen man has been charged with posting a comment on the Facebook page for Lockport Township High School District 205 that claimed there would be a school shooting if the school was not closed.

Prosecutors argued Eric Ullrich failed to act because he and his ex-wife didn't want to deal with child welfare officials again, and that their son would have lived had they acted sooner.

Schmidt pleaded guilty in February to reckless homicide and aggravated reckless driving.

Lake County Sheriff’s deputies arrested three 17-year-olds after they were found to be in possession of firearms and drugs, authorities said.

A Downers Grove South High School teacher pleaded not guilty Monday to sexually abusing and sexually assaulting a student.

A former Lake in the Hills woman pleaded guilty after she was charged last year with obstructing police who were searching for couple accused of abducting their daughter.

Area youth are invited on April 29 to participate in the Walk Against Violence, which runs from 5:30-8 p.m. and will begin at King Middle School, 1440 E. Court St. in Kankakee.

Two men pleaded guilty last week in connection with a duffle bag filled with more than $400,000 of cocaine and fentanyl in a Super 8 Motel in McHenry last year.

A motion was denied Wednesday to detain pre-trial a Hanover Park cleaning woman charged with stealing more than $20,000 worth of jewelry from three clients’ homes, prosecutors said.

A Loves Park woman has been sentenced to probation after she arranged to meet a man in his Woodstock home and then robbed him with an accomplice.

A Lake in the Hills man is charged with disseminating photographs of child sex abuse and of engaging in a sex act with a dog, court records say.

The 2024 crime rate for each Kankakee, Bourbonnais and Bradley police departments showed each trending down.

A Crystal Lake man has been charged with hitting and abusing a woman over 60 as a caregiver, according to court records.

A Crystal Lake man has been charged with aggravated assault after he allegedly charged at a police officer with a ukulele, according to court records.

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in a plea deal after he was charged with bringing in 17 kilograms of cocaine into a Super 8 Motel in McHenry.

In 2022, Wilma Alex shared with the Northwest Herald her story of the abuse she said she suffered at the hands of her husband, whom she’d met on a Philippine dating site.

In just about an hour Monday, Mark Alex was found guilty of attempting to kill his wife when he hit her with a hatchet and hammer in her Crystal Lake apartment in 2022.

Downers Grove police are investigating a string of commercial burglaries in its retail corridors.

A Ringwood man who pleaded guilty in March to aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a girl he met on Snapchat turned himself into the county jail Thursday to begin his five-year prison sentence.

The state has rested in the trial for a man who admits he struck her with a hammer and hatchet in her Crystal Lake apartment, but denies he was trying to kill her.

The Downers Grove South High School teacher accused of sexually abusing a student wrote what police called a “memoir” about the matter on her phone.

Walter Moist, who ran for Crystal Lake-based District 155 school board this week, was charged with violating an order of protection taken out against him, court records show.

A woman who police said was drunk when she crashed into another vehicle in Huntley ejecting her 4-year-old passenger was sentenced to one year in prison.

A Wisconsin man has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13 in McHenry County – an allegation dating back 10 years.

A traffic stop by Iroquois County Sheriff’s Police Thursday ended up with a man’s arrest and an explosive device being rendered safe.

Mark Alex doesn't deny he attacked his wife in her Crystal Lake apartment, but his lawyer said he wasn't trying to kill her and isn't guilty of attempted murder.

A Neuqua Valley High School teacher has been arrested on accusations he groomed and sexually abused a student.

A Texas man admitted to soliciting a McHenry County child via Snapchat to send him sexually explicit pictures and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.