McHenry County Courthouse

Prosecutors say a Marengo man held a woman against her will with a shotgun in his trailer on Friday, according to a criminal complaint filed in McHenry County.

A Crystal Lake man awaiting sentencing in a federal Ponzi scheme and accused of stealing from a McHenry County veterans group has been allowed some contact with members of that group while he works at a Fox Lake bar.

A former Crystal Lake lawyer, convicted of videotaping a teenage girl undressing, pleaded guilty to violating the sex-offender registry and was given one year of conditional discharge.

A felon who police say injured two McHenry County sheriff's deputies during a traffic stop in Crystal Lake pleaded guilty Wednesday to unlawfully possessing a stolen gun and was sentenced to 9.5 years in prison.

Randi Freese will be the next McHenry County’s state’s attorney, the first woman to hold the job, after running unopposed in Tuesday's election.

A man pleaded guilty to delivering a fatal dose of fentanyl to a woman who died in a home in Woodstock and was sentenced to six years in prison.

A man charged with his sixth drunken-driving offense in 2020 in Huntley – who then failed to show up in court after being allowed to move to Florida – pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to seven years in prison.

A Lakemoor man is accused of possessing in his home 724.5 grams of marijuana and 142 pot plants in what is described by police as a “pretty sophisticated grow operation.”

A Wonder Lake man with prior convictions for driving drunk and domestic violence pleaded guilty Friday to domestic battery and was sentenced to four years in prison.

A Crystal Lake man currently serving a five year sentence on a methamphetamine-related conviction, pleaded guilty Tuesday in a separate case involving cocaine possession and was sentenced to an additional seven years.

A man whose arrest near Wonder Lake was posted on TikTok and viewed millions of times has pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver heroin and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A Ukrainian immigrant is accused of grooming and other charges related to a 16-year-old girl he told authorities he was dating, they said.

A jury found a Crystal Lake man guilty of sexually assaulting a child authorities say he abused over an 18-month period between 2017 and 2019.

A Crystal Lake man was found guilty for exposing himself to a child as she walked to her school bus 15 years ago Monday.

Woodstock police say a Belvidere man sexually assaulted a child in his vehicle during a two-year period, according to a criminal complaint filed in McHenry County court.

A McHenry woman pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft and was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay back her elderly victim the nearly $37,000 police say she stole while working as the woman’s caregiver.

A Lakemoor man has admitted to possessing cocaine and was sentenced to 5½ years in prison but will serve less than half that time.

A Northbrook man is accused of traveling to McHenry County and sexually abusing a teenager in a vehicle in exchange for vape cartridges.

A homeless man is accused of watching a video of child sexual abuse while staying at the PADS shelter in McHenry.

A Lakemoor man gave a fentanyl-laced Xanax bar to a woman and then, after finding her dead hours later, left without calling for help, authorities alleged.

A Richmond man was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for possessing images of child sex abuse.

A former Barrington business owner was ordered to pay nearly $2 million in restitution and serve five years in prison after admitting to financially exploiting his 81-year-old relative.

A Crystal Lake man found guilty of pulling and bruising the ears of one of his former foster children was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail. He denied any abuse took place.

A Wonder Lake resident was charged with multiple counts of aggravated battery to police officers including punching, biting and kicking in the “groin area,” court records show.

A Richmond man is accused of possessing “an arsenal of weapons." Authorities said he is a convicted felon and not allowed to have guns or ammunition.

A Woodstock man, one of four charged in what police have described as potentially the “largest drug bust” in McHenry County history, pleaded guilty.

A Crystal Lake man who works as a pilot for United Airlines is accused of sexually assaulting a 5-year-old child whom he knows. He was released from jail pretrial but ordered to stay away from all children.

The Wonder Lake woman accused of shooting her husband at their home last week appeared in a McHenry County courtroom Wednesday and was appointed an assistant public defender.

A Huntley man initially accused of possessing 16,000 grams of marijuana and 4,300 grams of psilocybin mushrooms pleaded guilty to lesser charge.

A man linked to the theft of multiple vehicles valued at more than $1 million from Woodstock and Crystal Lake dealerships pleaded has guilty to burglary and theft.

A Barrington acupuncturist accused of fondling a patient in a Crystal Lake home was denied a request to have his case dismissed and is headed to trial.

A Wonder Lake man pleaded guilty to aggravated DUI; authorities said he'd had six previous DUI offenses.

A former Richmond-Burton High School student accused of threatening via social media to “shoot up” the school has been found unfit to stand trial.

A Lake Villa man was unsuccessful in his attempt to suppress statements made after he was arrested in connection to an early-morning shooting spree in McHenry.

Defense attorneys want argue at the civil trial of the death of a 3-year-old toddler struck and killed by a school bus in Cary that the child’s parents were “negligent” and “caused” his death, according to a filing in the McHenry County court.

A drug offense filed against a man in September - who swallowed a baggie of crack cocaine as Woodstock police attempted to search him - was increased and he was back in first appearance court Tuesday.

An Island Lake man is accused of being in the possession of images of children under the age of 13 being sexually abused.

An ex-McHenry man accused of shooting off a gun in a parking lot pleaded guilty to assault.

Scott Jacobson, a former McHenry County prosecutor fired in 2019, has now had his law license suspended for one year over fabrications of his work history, according to the Attorney Registration and Discipline Commission.

A Woodstock man is charged with aggravated battery over allegations he bruised a 3-year-old child.

A former Crystal Lake man convicted of sexually assaulting a child won a resentencing hearing based on the judge noting his lack of a statement of remorse.

A Huntley man convicted of pulling hair from a 6-year-old child’s head was sentenced to two years of probation and six weekends of intermittent jail time.

A Chicago man pleaded guilty Friday to delivering the fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of a Wonder Lake man and was sentenced to eight years in prison.

A Chicago man is accused of swindling two women in an Algonquin retail area by asking them to donate money to help “underprivileged youths” the increasing their donations tenfold, authorities allege.

A Chicago man who brought a loaded gun into the ER of a McHenry hospital pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm with a revoked FOID card.

A prosecutor said Wednesday a McHenry man was in a position of “trust and authority” when he allegedly stole $9,000 from an elderly couple for whom he was providing handyman work.

A Wisconsin man has pleaded guilty to aggravated DUI causing great bodily to his 12-year-old passenger in a crash near Richmond last year.

A McHenry woman on pretrial release for a pending drug case was arrested again this week and is charged in a new case involving drug and child endangerment offenses.

Mark and Wilma Alex met on Filipino Cupid and were married in 2015. In 2022, after she sought a divorce, she was attacked in her Crystal Lake apartment. Her now-ex-husband is accused of attempted murder.

A Woodstock man was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated DUI stemming from a crash from which authorities said he fled.