Lily Lake Crime
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Man charged after threatening to hurt himself with scissors at Kane County courthouseFeb 02, 2023 10:30 am - A Batavia man was arrested Wednesday at the Kane County Judicial Center in St. Charles after authorities say he grabbed a pair of scissors at the public defender's offic...
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Guns in peanut butter and a whole chicken: What TSA agents found during a record-breaking 2022Jan 22, 2023 10:00 am - We all know you can't bring a gun aboard a commercial flight, but that didn't stop a record 6,542 failed attempts last year, according to the Transportation Security Adm...
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Elgin man arrested after police chase, crash in St. CharlesJan 22, 2023 10:00 am - An Elgin man has been charged after a Friday morning police chase ended with a crash in St. Charles. Quinelle M. Franklin, 32, of the 1600 block of Mark Avenue, is charg...
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Fentanyl use in illicit drug supply continues to fuel rise in fatal Kane County overdosesJan 20, 2023 6:14 pm - The rate of opioid deaths in Kane County doubled in the last decade, and county officials are trying to determine a multipronged approach to bring the numbers down. Mich...
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Wisconsin man arrested on drug, gun charges on I-90Jan 18, 2023 5:57 pm - Kane County sheriff's detectives investigating drug trafficking along the Jane Addams Tollway arrested a Wisconsin man on weapons and drug charges Sunday, authorities sa...
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Suburban cold cases solved and unsolved: How DNA has played a role so farJan 14, 2023 8:36 am - Despite thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews and untold hours of investigation, it took nearly a decade - and a couple of strokes of luck - for police to arrest th...
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Sheriffs draw lines at what they will - and will not - enforce with new weapons lawJan 15, 2023 3:01 pm - Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg had a message for gun owners concerned about Illinois' new ban on the purchase, sale and manufacture of some high-powered weapons and l...
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Top crime stories of 2022: Mayhem and heartbreak defined the year in suburban crimeJan 14, 2023 8:20 am - A mass shooting on July 4 in Highland Park, during which a lone shooter stood atop a building firing nearly 90 rounds at parade spectators and participants, shocked the ...
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2 men charged with murder in Aurora shootingJan 12, 2023 5:29 am - Two men are facing charges in connection with a shooting last fall in Aurora that left one man dead and another critically injured. Samuel Garcia, 24, of the 600 block o...
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Lake County top prosecutor lobbies state legislators to pass assault weapon banJan 06, 2023 9:44 pm - Lake County State's Attorney Eric Rinehart added his voice Thursday to those urging state legislators to pass a ban on so-called assault weapons before the legislative s...