Mendota man gets probation for thwarting Peru shooting case
A Mendota man pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to police about a 2019 Peru shooting. During the plea, his prosecutor said who the gunman was believed to be.
A Mendota man pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to police about a 2019 Peru shooting. During the plea, his prosecutor said who the gunman was believed to be.
A Machesney Park man was indicted Tuesday for allegedly wielding a shank inside La Salle County Jail, injuring two corrections officers
Ottawa Police Capt. Michael Cheatham said Wednesday the public should know there are no other people of interest in the investigation launched after an Ottawa woman was found dead Monday morning in her apartment.
A Mokena man was ordered held Tuesday on $3 million bond after authorities said he stabbed to death his ex-girlfriend in her apartment early Monday on Ottawa’s South Side.
Ottawa Police and La Salle County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Benjamin R. Smith, 24, of Marseilles on cocaine charges Sunday in Ottawa.
Tri-DENT Drug Task Force agents arrested two Interstate 80 travelers on charges linked to methamphetamine and cocaine after an April 15 traffic stop near mile post 72 Bureau County.
The La Salle County Coroner’s Office confirmed Monday they are on scene at 321 W. McKinley Road in Ottawa, but otherwise declined to comment.
Officials at La Salle County Jail are getting frustrated with a backlog of inmates waiting to be transferred to the Illinois Department of Corrections. One in every eight of the county’s 175 inmates was supposed to have been shipped off by now.
Authorities said a 39-year-old Machesney Park inmate in jail on charges for fleeing and eluding police from an incident in Tonica attacked a nurse Thursday and injured two correction officers.