Crime

A Joliet man has been pronounced dead after a late-night shooting in the 1300 block of Pico Court in Jolie Township.

The suspected shooter in the shooting of three Joliet homes overnight Friday has been taken into custody, along with one of the home's owners on an unrelated charge.

McHenry County police testified about their cars being shot at while they were responding to 911 calls. The testimony came during the trial of Lake County man accused of attempted murder.

Cierra Norris, the attorney for Xandria Harris, served two days in jail after she was held in minor indirect criminal contempt of court in DuPage County earlier this week.

At the start of a Richmond dad’s sentencing Thursday in connection to his son’s fatal overdose, prosecutors played body-cam footage from detectives who responded to his home when his son was unresponsive.

Residents of a McHenry neighborhood testified Friday to being woken up early in the morning by loud crashes and finding windows broken and rocks in their homes.

Three men were caught by officers with the Momence Police Department allegedly in possession of fake $100 bills, currency printing equipment and materials.

A man admitted to falsely reporting there was a bomb in the Crystal Lake Public Library, court records show; he pleaded guilty to a similar false threat in Kane County.

The activity consists of charges being made to stores out of state, according to a news release.

A McHenry man was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping, according to court records.

A Holiday Hills man charged in connection with the fatal overdose of a McHenry man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison.

Nicholas Lopardo of Lake Villa allegedly shot off a gun, stole a vehicle, led police on chase and shot at cop cars in McHenry after a woman rebuffed his advances, prosecutors said at the opening of Nicholas Lopardo's trial.

James Piezonka is accused of fatally shooting his son Ryan in Lakemoor Sunday; authorities said the wounded man approached a passerby for help before he was found dead in the street.

A 61-year-old Crystal Lake man is being held without release at the McHenry County Jail after he was found with methamphetamine, fentanyl and cocaine following a stop for speeding

A man found shot on Route 120 in Lakemoor Sunday afternoon died at a McHenry Hospital, and a person is in custody, police said.

The house was unoccupied and no injuries or additional property damage were reported, according to a news release from the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office.

A McHenry woman, initially charged with Class X drug offenses that could have led to decades-long incarceration, pleaded to a lesser charge and was sentenced to five years in prison.

A McHenry woman has been accused of stealing more than $22,000 from her minor daughter’s estate.

A McHenry man threatened to “shoot up” the McHenry County courthouse and “eat” the face off of the judge presiding over his child custody case, a prosecutor said in court. An outside judge from DeKalb County was brought in to hear the case.

Advocates of the family of a Muslim child who was killed in 2023 in Plainfield Township say the convicted killer was radicalized by unfounded and dehumanizing claims about Palestinians in media coverage of the Gaza war.

A Marengo man charged in 2021 with driving drunk and causing a crash that killed his wife was sentenced to five years in prison.

The victim of a fatal DUI crash was “an extraordinary person,” a family member said in court Thursday during the sentencing of the Lakemoor man who pleaded guilty in the death.

A Woodstock woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving drunk before a crash that killed her sister and was sentenced to six years in prison.

A Woodstock man was sentenced to two years of probation stemming from charges that he set his 2018 Volkswagen GTI on fire and then reported it stolen, McHenry County Court records show.

A Cary man pleaded guilty Tuesday to injuring his infant son and was sentenced to four years in prison.

Kankakee police recovered the vehicle they believe to have been involved in the shooting of a man Sunday.

A motion was granted Monday to deny pre-trial release for a Burr Ridge man accused of attacking his mother, Virna Rodriguez, with a hammer in the family home Feb. 22.

An Ashton teen pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree murder, admitting he used a belt to strangle his girlfriend to death four months ago in the apartment they shared.

A motion was granted Sunday to detain pre-trial a Chicago woman accused of stealing merchandise from the Oak Brook Lululemon store and then leading police on a high-speed chase, prosecutors said.

Teams from 14 high school, including Huntley, recently participated in the first mock trial competition held at McHenry County courthouse.

A Rockford man was sentenced to 18 years in prison after authorities in Woodstock found 900 grams of heroin in the vehicle in which he was a passenger.

A motion was granted Friday to deny pre-trial release for a Chicago man accused of possessing more than 100 grams of illegal narcotics and leading police on a high-speed chase, prosecutors said.

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for robbing a 7-Eleven store in Elmhurst.

Following a four-month long investigation, a Plainfield man has been arrested and charged with possessing child sexual abuse images.

A Harvard man who led police on a high-speed chase before officers found marijuana, LSD and nearly $14,000 in his vehicle was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Kankakee County Sheriff's investigators make second arrest in January shooting of 19-year-old man in rural Limestone.

A motion was granted Thursday to revoke pre-trial release for a Bloomingdale man newly charged with possessing a stolen car, prosecutors said.

The former president of a McHenry girls softball league has pleaded guilty to stealing $16,000 from the league and was sentenced to two years probation.

A motion to deny pre-trial release for a two-time convicted felon who was allegedly in possession of a loaded handgun was granted Wednesday, prosecutors said.

A man filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital, saying a surgical sponge was left inside his neck for four months, court records show.

Kyle M. Cooper, 36, of Rock Falls, is being held in the Whiteside County Jail in Morrison on a first-degree murder charge as well as two counts of aggravated battery in connection with the Feb. 14 stabbing death of Daniel J. Gordon.

A registered child sex offender solicited a child through Snapchat to send him “indecent” images, Lake in the Hills police and prosecutors said.

A trial date has been set for Xandria Harris for the death of Bradley Police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic and seriously wounding of retired Sgt. Tyler Bailey in December 2021.

The two men were formally charged Feb. 11, with the offenses alleged to have occurred Jan. 3, according to court records

A crash Sunday shut down some lanes of Route 31 in the Crystal Lake area.

Two men accused of selling more than 25 grams of fentanyl-laced cocaine twice in May to an undercover informant are seeking pretrial release from the McHenry County jail.

A motion has to detain two out-of-state men accused of breaking into and stealing more than $135,000 worth of merchandise from the Rogers & Holland Jewelers at Yorktown Mall in Lombard

According to a news release, Rock Falls police were dispatched at 1:50 a.m. Friday, Feb. 14, for a reported stabbing in the 600 block of West 20th Street in Rock Falls.

A California who man admitted Thursday to scamming a Crystal Lake woman out of $30,000 was sentenced to two years conditional discharge and ordered to pay her back.

Prosecutors said Thursday a Wisconsin man sexually assaulted a woman in her McHenry home while she was unconscious and he filmed it.