McHenry County Courthouse

James Piezonka is accused of fatally shooting his son Ryan in Lakemoor Sunday, according to court records.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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 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.

A Crystal Lake man has admitted to delivering cocaine and was sentenced to eight years in prison.

A man accused of selling nearly 29 grams of cocaine to a confidential informant last year in a Crystal Lake parking lot was released from jail Monday pretrial.

A Crystal Lake man pleaded guilty to possessing video depicting child sex abuse and was sentenced to 24 months on sex offender probation.

Which school districts in the McHenry County area have announced schedule changes Wednesday because of the snow forecast?

A Wonder Lake man was involved in a fatal drunken boating crash in 2008. He just got jail time on more recent DUI charge, but the boating crash didn't factor in as a prior DUI.

McHenry County officials are considering whether the county should buy a building that’s across the street from the courthouse in Woodstock.

Attorneys for a woman, accused of DUI of marijuana in a crash that killed an Elmhurst resident, are trying to throw out the toxicology tests, arguing labs incorrectly measured the drug in her body.

A Harvard man is sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13, court records show.

A Wonder Lake man has been detained on charged that he sold an unserialized machine gun to a Woodstock who allegedly was found with the gun, body armor and drugs last month.

A Harvard man has been sentenced to eight years in prison in a plea deal after he fired a gun near Woodstock Square in 2023. The same man had been arrested just two days before that.

Cara and Eric Ullrich were both charged in the death of Trent Ullrich, 14, who overdosed on fentanyl and a dangerous animal tranquilizer – drugs authorities said his mother had bought for herself.

A Harvard man was sentenced to six years in prison after police found baggies of fentanyl and cocaine hidden in an air duct in his bedroom last year.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

In McHenry County, federal money has been used in far-reaching ways, helping fund roadwork, health care programs, nonprofit programs for those in need, specialty courts, workforce housing and much more.

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.

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

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

A Woodstock man remained jailed Sunday after being arrested Thursday with more than 4 ounces of methamphetamine, a loaded automatic machine gun and body armor on him.

A Round Lake man has been sentenced to two years probation in a plea deal after he arrested in Spring Grove last year with almost a pound of marijuana.

A warrant was issued Thursday for a man accused of breaking into a Woodstock apartment, stealing $300 and threatening a resident with a gun, according to McHenry County court records.