DeKalb Police Cmdr. Jason Leverton said Thursday about five or six calls about people finding single cheese slices on their vehicles have come within the previous 48 hours.

According to a Sycamore police news release, Broc Mohler, 30, of Rochelle suffered serious injuries from the Monday morning crash and was transported to Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital in DeKalb. He was later pronounced dead.

A Sandwich woman who previously was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter following an October 2020 fatal crash is now facing unrelated misdemeanor domestic battery charges.

A DeKalb man already convicted once of battering a child now faces separate charges of sexually assaulting one, and allegedly attempting to record the child in the bathroom on his cell phone, police say.

A DeKalb man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to uploading child pornography to the social media website Tumblr and manufacturing explosives related to a 2019 arrest. It's his second pornography conviction in DeKalb County.

Darrell Frazier, 18, of the 17700 block of Burnham Avenue in Lansing, has been charged with one count of aggravated battery with a firearm, one count of aggravated vehicular hijacking, one count of armed violence, and two counts of possession of a stolen motor vehicle, all felonies.

A DeKalb man with several prior domestic violence convictions is facing charges after police say he strangled a woman after a verbal argument and attempted to resist arrest.