Crime and Courts

Attorneys for a former Joliet Township official claims Will County prosecutors broke the law when presenting evidence to a grand jury that led to pandemic relief fraud charges.

A Harvard man is sentenced to six years in prison in connection to a shooting at a gas station in Harvard in 2023 that left one person wounded.

A Wauconda man was charged with public indecency after allegedly “engaging in lewd behavior while naked on his porch,” according to Wauconda police..

Two of five people charged in a law enforcement sweep of accused St. Charles sex traffickers had their cases continued Thursday to Feb. 21 for possible plea agreements.

A Joliet man who has tattoos that say "Killinois" and "Angel Of Death" has been serving life in prison for the 2020 murder of a 25-year-old man.

Attorneys for former Iroquois County Public Health administrator Dee Ann Schippert argued in a motion that her allegedly gambling for more than 750 hours while claiming to be on the clock for her job is not relevant to the charges against her.

His next court date is Feb. 21.

A former Wheaton resident was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years in prison for her role in the 2018 murder of a West Chicago man.

Jonathon Gounaris is back in Ogle County court Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.

Prosecutors say Malakye Swanson threatened to "shoot up" Byron High School in November 2024.

The women were accused of entering a home in the 800 block of West Seventh Street in Sterling, punching a man in the face and pulling a woman's hair.

Steven Foulk of Island Lake man has pleaded guilty to aggravated driving under the influence in connection to a 2021 motorcycle-vehicle crash in McHenry that killed Kenneth Jackson.

A man who hit a stopped school bus in a 2022 crash that killed two of his friends has pleaded guilty to committing reckless homicide.

Defense attorneys in a Lockport Township gun case claim a vehicle search during a traffic stop was unjustified because a deputy claimed he could smell marijuana that was never recovered.

Jeffrey Hauck, imprisoned for the fatal overdose of Stephanie Phillippi in Crystal Lake, was paroled in December and found dead Jan. 30.

A judge blocked the jail release of a Romeoville man charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. The judge found he was a flight risk after he allegedly tried to obtain a fraudulent passport in 1998.

An Illinois state senator has formally requested the Illinois State’s Attorney Appellate Prosecutor’s Office step up its case review into the death of a Carroll County teen whose body was found on a highway near Mount Carroll last summer.

Dalton J. Delhotal, 29, pleaded guilty to the charge Tuesday, Feb. 4, in Lee County Circuit Court. Four additional charges of criminal sexual assault, all Class 1 felonies, were dismissed as part of a plea deal.

A Huntley man faces 10 charges of possessing sexual images of children younger than 13.

A woman may spend more than two months in prison after a Will County jury found her guilty of fatally stabbing a dog during a domestic disturbance in Crest Hill.

Two men are in custody after Oak Brook police say they stole a car and fled on foot after being pulled over early Friday morning.

A Harvard man is accused of punching security guard in the face at The Mac Sports Center in Crystal Lake, court records show.

A Spring Grove man has been sentenced to four years in prison in a plea deal after he was accused of possessing 20.1 grams of cocaine, more than 1,200 grams of marijuana gummies and six commercial-grade fireworks.

A Huntley man has been sentenced to conditional discharge after he was accused of cruelty to dozens of animals, including a turtle, 17 cats and a dog.

A man has been jailed after he was charged with a Jan. 18 shooting that damaged a house on Youngs Avenue in Joliet. 

An 18-year-old Chicago man was arrested Wednesday after he was charged in the theft of an Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio from a Crystal Lake dealership last year.

A Wonder Lake resident is sentenced to two years probation in a plea deal after being charged with multiple felony counts of aggravated battery to police officers in October, including punching, biting and kicking one officer in the “groin area."

A Woodstock man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in a plea deal after he was charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a child.

A Carpentersville man was sentenced to two years of conditional discharge after he was charged with intimidation, trespassing and resisting a police officer after police say he fled on foot through an Algonquin neighborhood.

The owner of an Oswego massage parlor along with one of its employees have been charged in connection with an alleged prostitution incident.

The rifle used in a Will County sheriff’s lieutenant’s fatal shooting of a hostage taker at a Romeoville bank was tested by “two independent bodies” and was found not to have malfunctioned, according to a company executive. 

A motion was approved Friday to detain pre-trial a Hanover Park man accused of robbing two Lombard 7-Eleven convenience stores at gunpoint, prosecutors said.

A federal jury has convicted the getaway driver in a string of bank robberies in Lisle, Westmont and neighboring suburbs starting in 2021.

An Aurora man was charged with criminal sexual abuse for allegedly grabbing and threatening a Geneva woman with a knife if she didn't have sex with him.

A Joliet man who resides in the northeast part of the city was arrested after officers found 11 stolen vehicles, a stolen trailer, and a stolen tractor on his property, police said.

Kane County Circuit Judge Sandra Parga was appointed chair of the Juvenile Detention Practices Task Force, and Juvenile Justice Center Superintendent Michael Davis to serve on the committee.

A DuPage County caregiver was charged Wednesday for her involvement in an incident at a community-based home that resulted in an older resident sustaining second-degree burns to a majority of her lower body, prosecutors said.

A McHenry County judge on Thursday sentenced a McHenry man with a past felony conviction to 14 years in prison of possessing multiple narcotics and a loaded firearm found in a McHenry home.

Passenger died five days after crash on Steward Road near its intersection with Ritchie Road southeast of Rochelle.

Batavia police are looking for the burglar who overnight smashed the front door of Liquor & Tobacco on Randall Road and made off with "numerous items."

It took the jury less than three hours Thursday to find Jonathan D. Hurst guilty of the 2016 murders of Sycamore mother and son Patricia Wilson, 85, and Robert Wilson, 64. The verdict came on the sixth day of trial.

An Oregon man was found guilty in McHenry County court of seven counts of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 13.

The Tri-County Auto theft Task Force arrested a Kankakee man for possession of a stolen motor vehicles Tuesday

A motion was approved Tuesday to detain pre-trial an armed Cook County man charged with leading police on a high-speed chase in a stolen car, prosecutors said.

Officers in Joliet recovered a handgun modified to fire automatically, as well as a second handgun and rifle in the investigation of several teens in masks possibly armed on the city’s east side. 

Three men were arrested on drug charges in a Cary home Monday night after police conducted a search warrant, officials report.

The Rev. Carlos Martins allegedly grabbed a girl’s hair, made a “flossing motion” with her hair in his mouth, sat behind her and made a “growling noise,” according to a statement from Joliet police officials.

Jered T. Vautsmeier, 21, pleaded not guilty to felony aggravated fleeing and 10 other misdemeanor charges.

A Will County sheriff’s lieutenant who is being sued over claims that he wrongfully killed a hostage taker in 2022 at a Romeoville bank will face no charges over the incident.

Daniel Garcia-Aguado, 31, of Cicero, is being held in the Ogle County Jail.