A woman who police said threw a homemade “firebomb” into a Crystal Lake home at the behest of her husband is heading to prison along with him.

A man is accused of threatening to “kill everyone” at the McHenry Police Department as he was being arrested in an alleged domestic violence incident Sunday.

An Elgin man is accused of committing a “sweetheart scam” when he allegedly schemed $8,000 in cash and wheel rims worth $1,400 out of a Huntley man who has a “documented intellectual disability.”

A person was found dead in their bed in a home in Woodstock Monday afternoon.

Two people were found dead overnight Monday inside a vehicle parked with flashers on in Harvard, police said.

A man accused of burglarizing a Harvard home - and discharging a weapon when the owners showed up - is already headed to prison for a separate residential burglary in another county, court records show.

An Elgin man arrested with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.314 in McHenry last year has pleaded guilty to driving drunk for a sixth time. How much prison time did he get?

A Union woman pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with a Crystal Lake man’s fatal overdose and was sentenced to 6½ years in prison.

A man who pleaded guilty to committing arson at a Crystal Lake residence while knowing that someone was home at the time has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. His wife was also charged.

A Crystal Lake man has pleaded guilty to his fifth offense of driving under the influence of alcohol, court records show.

A Crystal Lake man has pleaded guilty to using Snapchat to solicit “sexually explicit” images from a 13-year-old child in Texas.

Court records indicate an Oakwood Hills man was accused of concealing an AR-15 outside the Crystal Lake Public Library. Police confirm the man faces gun-related charges but now say the weapon was not recovered outside the library.

A 78-year-old Crystal Lake man is accused of sexually assaulting a child in his truck nine years ago when she was 5 or 6 years old.

A man is accused of hiding an AR-15 rifle in bushes outside the Crystal Lake library near a school, court records show.

A Woodstock man who was wearing body armor and carrying a loaded machine gun when arrested pleaded guilty Friday to weapon and methamphetamine charges.

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.

An Elgin man allegedly hid in a Marengo barn as a SWAT team executed a search warrant on a house and his truck, where prosecutors said they found cocaine with a potential street value of $300,000.

Authorities say they've seen a "dramatic increase" in those sharing images of child sexual abuse. But officials in Kane and McHenry counties have employed technology and teamwork to track down sources of lewd images and videos of kids.

A Marengo man on parole for battering a 7-month-old child in 2014, causing a brain bleed, pleaded guilty Wednesday to strangling a woman in February.

Alan Hanke of Crystal Lake - already facing possible prison for a Ponzi scheme - was allowed to take back a plea in McHenry County court to defrauding the McHenry American Legion.

A former Lake in the Hills woman who was accused of abducting her own child and leaving the Woodstock DCFS office, was sentenced Friday to two years probation in the case.

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 Lake Villa man was sentenced to prison after going on a “reign of terror” in the McHenry area on night in 2023 – firing a gun, damaging properties, fleeing police and stealing vehicles in and around McHenry two years ago.

An Ingleside woman was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for the fatal head-on crash she caused while authorities said she was under the influence of marijuana.

A Crystal Lake 18-year-old illegally carried around a loaded, defaced gun for months while “dealing drugs,” authorities allege - but his attorney blasts law change that prevents cash bail.

A South Elgin man admitted Thursday that he sexually assaulted a 10-year-old Harvard girl and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A Chicago man accused of possessing hundreds of grams of fentanyl and cocaine when arrested in Algonquin after fleeing police in Crystal Lake was sentenced Friday to 14 1/2 years in prison.

Harvard police are seeking man who they said fled from them Saturday night after allegedly shoving a pistol at a teen during an argument.

Officers had to give the suspect in a string of crimes in the Algonquin area two doses of Narcan when he was found unresponsive in a backyard, authorities said.

Authorities allege a 19-year-old man knew the drugs he was peddling were of “low quality” yet continued to sell them, including the dose of MDMA that they say killed a Wonder Lake teen.

The third of three defendants charged in connection with the fatal fentanyl overdose of a Crystal Lake man pleaded guilty Thursday.

The family of a toddler who died after being found unresponsive at an Island Lake daycare settled a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday for $1 million.

An Elgin man is suspected in a string of incidents that began early Thursday morning when authorities said he entered an Algonquin home through an unlocked sliding door and stole a truck.

A Cicero man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after prosecutors said he turned the Fox River Grove Jewel-Osco parking lot into an “open-air drug market.”

A Wauconda man has pleaded guilty Friday to possessing 11 pounds of marijuana, which was found by police in a suitcase and on a bus parked in a Lake in the Hills industrial park.

A Marengo man who has a history of peering into the windows of unsuspecting women has been charged with another alleged offense.

A Lake in the Hills businessman was denied his request to seal his conviction for evading more than $3 million in state sales tax from several Denny's restaurants he owned.

A Crystal Lake man who pleaded guilty in federal court to defrauding investors of more than $8 million is requesting for his sentencing to be postponed again due to ongoing health issues, according to court documents.

A prosecutor said he is narrowing the timeframe on an indictment accusing a former Wonder Lake grocery store owner and ski team instructor of sexually abusing a child.

A Chicago man admitted Thursday that he asked a woman outside an Algonquin store for a donation for “underprivileged children,” then increased her offering from $10 to $1,000.

A McHenry County man is accused of chatting with dozens of children on Snapchat and exchanging explicit videos some four, according to authorities.

A Lake in the Hills man accused of sexually assaulting a child younger than 13 was detained Wednesday in McHenry County jail, where he has worked in the past mentoring inmates. He works at Judson University.

Authorities said a Woodstock man with multiple prior domestic violence convictions struck a woman in the head with an object early Sunday and has been jailed awaiting trial.

Alan Hanke of Crystal Lake - due to be sentenced next week in an $8 million Ponzi scheme - is trying to withdraw his guilty plea to defrauding the McHenry American Legion.

A McHenry woman accused of stabbing a man with a steak knife was detained in McHenry County jail while awaiting trial on battery charges.

The second of three men charged in connection with the fatal fentanyl overdose of a Crystal Lake man has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A caretaker is accused of stealing almost $30,000 from an elderly McHenry person after their death, according to authorities.

A man was sentenced to prison for setting fire to a Lakewood house, which occurred while he was awaiting trial on charges he crashed his car into a Crystal Lake home and paralyzed a man inside.

A Wonder Lake man accused of having “tens of thousands” of images of child sex abuse pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count and was sentenced to six years in prison.

A Wonder Lake man was allegedly found with multiple illicit narcotics – including cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and pills – during a McHenry traffic stop.