McHenry County Courthouse

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.

The Trump and Truth Store in Huntley could soon be forced to vacate its space as it's facing eviction over sign violations. The owner says she has a right to advertise.

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.

Marengo High School District 154 is court ordered to pay back nearly $364,000 to taxpayers filed a lawsuit claiming the school district levied an “excessive” amount in 2022, according to court documents.

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.

Crystal Lake appoints its deputy city manager as city clerk for an automatically renewable four-year term once the term of the current elected clerk, who is facing felony charges, ends this month.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Johnsburg's Pistakee Yacht Club and the village sued each other over a boat storage dispute. Post-election, with two incumbents trailing, will the legal fight be resolved?

Two Wisconsin men are charged with felony counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm into a building and other offenses after a shots fired report Monday in Harvard.

A doctor said that a 14-year-old boy would have lived had his parents called 911 after finding him unresponsive in his dad’s home near Richmond and suspected he had ingested his mother’s fentanyl and xylazine.

A Woodstock man who had worked as a firefighter in McHenry County pleaded not guilty to allegations he stalked and harassed a woman in violation of an order of protection.

A Spring Grove man admitted Tuesday he stole multiple firearms from a Harvard home including automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns.

A Crystal Lake lawyer defrauded investors out of about $140,000 in a cryptocurrency scam and his license has been suspended, according to official documents.

A Crystal Lake man accused of setting campaign signs on fire the morning polls opened in the 2022 primary election pleaded guilty Tuesday to striking a corrections officer in McHenry County jail.

A felon with a “lengthy criminal history” pleaded guilty Monday to unlawful possession of cocaine and was sentenced to 61/2 years in prison.

A former Woodstock man pleaded guilty Monday to an attempted Harvard home invasion and was sentenced to four years in prison.

District 155 candidate Walter A. Moist IV has been convicted of felony marijuana possession as well as misdemeanor disorderly conduct and battery, McHenry County court records show. What does he say about it?

Richard Rowland of Crystal Lake continued to claim his innocence of child sex assault, but was sentenced to 36 years in prison. A statement from the victim, read in cout, said he claimed his actions were “in the name of the Lord.”

An Elgin man pleaded guilty Friday to possessing more than two kilos of heroin found inside a lunchbox during a traffic stop in Algonquin and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

A Woodstock man has admitted to bruising a 3-year-old child, and in a separate case, driving under the influence of alcohol.

In less than an hour Wednesday a jury convicted a man of arson for setting fire inside his father’s Lakewood home despite Connor Kirkpatrick saying he was only trying to take his life.

A Woodstock man with a past conviction for burglary to a vehicle pleaded guilty Monday to residential burglary.

Connor Kirkpatrick, accused of setting fire to his father’s Lakewood home, said he was in so much “unbearable” pain that from injuries he suffered when he crashed his car into a Crystal Lake home.

A former Richmond woman has been convicted after fraudulently selling off more than $25,000 of an elderly Spring Grove man’s stock.

A Woodstock man was out of county jail on cash bond in two previous cases when arrested and charged last week with possessing large quantities of fentanyl and cocaine.

A McHenry man has pleaded guilty to possessing one image depicting child sex abuse and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A Lake in the Hills man and registered sex offender was sentenced to six and a half years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to unlawful possession with the intent to deliver cocaine.

An Oregon man – described by his attorney as a successful businessman, Eagle Scout and former Eucharistic minister – was sentenced to jail time and probation Friday for sexually abusing a former Port Barrington child.

A McHenry County Corrections Officer has died after a battle with brain cancer, a post from the sheriff’s office said.