In 2022, Bradley Goodbred was charged with the theft of more than $1.2 million from an elderly client over an eight-year period. The 97-year-old victim had dementia.

Ex-police officer James Corralejo, 26, of DeKalb, was sentenced by a judge Thursday to four years in prison for driving drunk and causing a 2023 crash that killed Graciela Reza Contreras. “I don't expect to be forgiven," Corralejo told Graciela's family in an emotional hearing.

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Former suburban Cook County police officer James Corralejo, of DeKalb, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday for aggravated DUI in a 2023 crash that killed DeKalb woman Graciela Reza Contreras.

Timothy M. Doll, who pleaded guilty in February to the 2023 murder of teenager Gracie Sasso-Cleveland, will be sentenced in August, a DeKalb County judge ruled Wednesday.

A former DeKalb County elected official who once led the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity recently pleaded guilty to stealing more than $10,000 from the nonprofit, court records show.

A DeKalb man was arrested Sunday after police say he battered a woman, who they found with a bloodied face inside a locked hotel room, according to records filed in court.

A Sycamore man was charged Wednesday after police alleged he attempted to strangle a woman with a fan cord and threatened to kill her, according to DeKalb County court records.

A 51-year-old DeKalb man was charged Thursday after a minor told police that the man allegedly sexually assaulted them more than 100 times for multiple years and stomped the minor’s pet birds to death, according to court records.

A DeKalb man pleaded guilty Thursday to driving under the influence of drugs and causing a 2024 crash that killed sheriff’s deputy, veteran and mother Christina Musil. He's expected to be sentenced in August.