A Will County judge has ordered a New Lenox to remain in jail after he was accused of possessing a cellphone containing about 100 files of child sex abuse materials.

A Joliet man has been charged with firing a gun in a “reckless manner” which "endangered” the safety of residents near Rowell Avenue and Linden Avenue, court records show.

Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow said the “alleged circumstances” involving a former Plainfield fire chief suspected of misappropriating public resources “did not rise to the level of a criminal offense.”

The Channahon Police Department arrested five suspects Wednesday after two witnesses reported seeing six or seven people removing large boxes from the Amazon facility at 23714 Amoco Road near South Bradley Street.

A judge ruled a Joliet man posed a danger to the community and a flight risk after viewing a video of the Oct. 7 incident that left a 74-year-old woman with broken ribs, a bruised liver, two black eyes and other injuries.

A Will County judge denied the pretrial release of a Indiana man from Guatemala who is charged with aggravated sexual abuse of a teen he was waiting for at Romeoville High School, court records show.

Prosecutors will request a Will County judge to view a video in their bid to keep a Joliet man detained in jail on charges alleging he struck a woman with a vehicle outside Walmart.

Police were called to the high school.

The Channahon Police Department said it is investigating a hit-and-run incident from 6:42 p.m. Saturday after a driver hit a dog and fled.