A DeKalb man has been charged with numerous offenses linked to an alleged recent crime spree that included using a BB gun to rob a downtown game shop clerk of hundreds of dollars, burglarizing a drug store and damaging an insurance office, police said.
A Schaumburg man – charged with felony aggravated fleeing a police officer – was traveling at speeds exceeding 100 miles an hour in a two-county chase, according to Kane County Sheriff’s reports.
Sandwich police are on the lookout for possible persons of interest wanted in connection to multiple recent catalytic converter thefts in the city.
A DeKalb man is facing charges after police say he beat a woman and attempted to choke her to prevent her from calling 911 on Christmas Eve, according to DeKalb County court records.
Ronald J. Bieberitz Sr., who’s already spent time in jail for molesting one boy, was sentenced to 40 years in jail Wednesday by a DeKalb County judge for molesting another boy whom he met through a Genoa church.
Genoa police are warning residents about a string of car burglaries reported Friday, all of them in vehicles allegedly left unlocked.
A DeKalb man was tased by police and then allegedly injured himself during a Wednesday morning incident at the DeKalb County Courthouse as sheriff’s deputies attempted to arrest him on an outstanding warrant and he resisted, authorities said.
Nearly eight years after he was charged with disseminating child pornography, three lawyers and scrapped trials, DeKalb pastor Corey D. Butler was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he pleaded guilty Wednesday in front of a DeKalb County judge.
The last of four people accused of hitting and stealing a man’s shorts, cellphone and shoes outside a Crystal Lake gas station last year was sentenced to 160 days in jail, 30 hours of community service and two years of probation.