Island Lake Crime
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Round Lake day care owner sentenced to 4 years in prisonAug 20, 2022 7:51 am - The owner of an at-home day care business in Round Lake where a 3-month-old child died in 2019 was sentenced to four years in prison by a Lake County judge this week. Ja...
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Police: Boy charged with felonies for bringing loaded gun to Wauconda High SchoolAug 21, 2022 7:58 am - A boy has been charged with four felonies for bringing a loaded handgun into Wauconda High School Thursday, the Wauconda Police Department said Friday. The boy, whose a...
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Canine Tera(byte) to help Lake County Sheriff 's Office combat human trafficking, child exploitationAug 15, 2022 5:55 pm - The newest crime fighter for the Lake County sheriff's office is a 1½-year-old Labrador retriever specially trained to find electronic devices. Tera(byte), an electronic...
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Second man charged with murder in May shooting of North Chicago teenAug 14, 2022 9:34 pm - An 18-year-old Calumet City man became the second person charged with murder for the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy killed at a North Chicago gas station in May. Al...
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In setback for McHenry County, federal court upholds ban on ICE detainees in county jailsAug 19, 2022 9:45 am - McHenry County's legal fight to preserve a multimillion-dollar federal contract suffered a significant defeat this week when a U.S. appellate court upheld a state law th...
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Ex-Lake County prosecutor who bought teen alcohol in Woodstock sent to jailAug 12, 2022 10:05 am - A former Lake County prosecutor was fined and sentenced to jail time on Wednesday for buying liquor for a teenager he was with in a Woodstock motel in 2020. Javaron D. B...
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Elgin woman gets 12 years for armed robberyAug 04, 2022 12:52 am - A 19-year-old Elgin woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to an amended felony charge connected to a Nov. 22 armed robbery of a Wonder ...
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New judge to hear case against AJ Freund's caseworkersAug 02, 2022 4:42 pm - An out-of-county judge will be brought in to the McHenry County courthouse to preside over the cases of two caseworkers charged criminally in the death of a 5-year-old C...
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Grand jury adds 110 criminal charges against Highland Park mass shooting suspectJul 29, 2022 6:20 am - A Lake County grand jury today indicted the 21-year-old Highwood man accused of carrying out a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade on 110 additional...
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Ingleside business raided, owner charged with trafficking cocaineJul 28, 2022 7:15 am - A 36-year-old Northbrook man was charged with drug trafficking and other crimes after Lake County sheriff's office detectives uncovered nearly 1,000 grams of cocaine fro...