The Bureau County Grand Jury considered the following cases on Nov. 14.

A Marengo man is among five charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty in connection to a Woodstock-area rodeo, including men from Sleepy Hollow, Hampshire, Belvidere and a teen from Lockport, court records show.

Quinton M. Thompsen, of St. Anne was arrested following an alleged altercation that occurred during a Nov. 20 boys’ basketball game at Bradley Central School.

A Chicago man pleaded guilty to battery in the shooting of another man in McHenry in 2023. An attempted murder charge was dropped in exchange, a deal approved by a judge who told him she'd pray for him in prison.

Kankakee police said Tuesday they interviewed a person of interest in the shooting death of 20-year-old Donnie E. Smith, of Chicago, Sunday night.

Illinois State Police Division of Forensic Services confirmed the remains as Princeton's Austin J. Rossler in a laboratory report received Friday, Nov. 21, Workman said.

A Streamwood man charged with firing a gun from a car in Cary last year has been denied pretrial release following his recent arrest.

Earlier this month, a Momence man agreed to plead guilty to battering a 72-year-old man in Momence in June.

A 20-year-old Chicago man was killed Sunday night in Kankakee, a victim of a shooting.

A Huntley man is accused of being under the influence of marijuana when he ran a stop sign near Union and crashed into a pickup truck, causing serious injuries.

A Crystal Lake woman is accused of aggravated battery of a baby in her care and running an unlicensed daycare. A video of her handling the baby, shot by another child, was ruled admissible.

A man convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in Harvard after being deported and returning illegally has been sentenced to federal prison for being in the US unlawfully at the time.

A McHenry man accused of forcing his way into a stranger’s apartment, then biting the man’s thumb, has pleaded guilty to battery.

The 18-year-old is charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm, a Class 1 felony, and aggravated use of a firearm as a person under the age of 21, a Class 4 felony

The home was occupied at the time of the shooting but no injuries were reported, Joliet police said.

A Chicago man charged with shooting two people as they sat in a parked vehicle in Addison to 42 years in prison.

Former Crystal Lake city clerk Nicholas Kachiroubas' own police report about an online extortion attempt led to charges against him, authorities said. He pleaded guilty to possessing an image depicting child sexual abuse.

Three Cook County individuals, including a juvenile who was allegedly armed, have been accused of stealing a 2019 Nissan Altima out of Willowbrook, prosecutors said.

Authorities encourage anyone with information to come forward about the death of Anna Schneider at 19 in Sleepy Hollow in 2009. Her manner of death was reclassified homicide in 2022.

A Chicago man currently on pre-trial release for a felony retail theft in Lombard has been charged with stealing merchandise from three DuPage County businesses over the past few weeks, prosecutors said.

Police allege a woman had a large, bleeding bump on her head and red marks around her neck, indicating she had been choked, as a result of a Nov. 8 beating

Nicholas Kachiroubas was the elected Crystal Lake city clerk and had held several other civic roles when he was charged with possessing lewd images of children and grooming. He's now agreed to plead guilty to the former and faces prison.

The death of college student Anna Schneider of Sleepy Hollow was reclassified as a homicide three years ago. Her parents say they haven't seen justice.

A man who shot a pregnant woman in 2022 in Willowbrook has been sentenced to 48 years in prison.

A Willowbrook man is being detained following accusations of attempted sexual assault in Hinsdale and of grabbing women in Downers Grove and Darien.

Jesus Simms, 32, of Joliet, is accused of stabbing a 45-year-old man multiple times near South Ottawa and McDonough streets on Tuesday evening

A Genoa man has been charged with aggravated DUI and driving with a revoked licensed in McHenry County after authorities said he hit a curb and a sign and drove into a grassy area.

A former Cary man accused of starting a fire in his Crystal Lake motel room was detained Wednesday in jail.

A Wonder Lake man who was convicted in 2002 of fatally shooting his wife, and who last year was cleared of felony domestic battery charges, faces new domestic battery misdemeanors.

A 45-year-old male was found in the area of McDonough Street and South Ottawa Street with multiple stab wounds, Joliet police said.

A Michigan man is accused of starting a fire inside the Super 8 motel in Crystal Lake Monday, and the manager who extinguished it is being praised as a “bonafide hero.”

Bradley police arrested two men Nov. 5 for allegedly passing counterfeit $100 in Bradley.

An Aurora middle school teacher has been charged with sexually assaulting a former student who is underage, DuPage County authorities said Saturday.

A Kankakee man was arrested by Kankakee police following an incident in which he allegedly threatened a neighbor with a firearm.

A road rage incident in Kankakee Nov. 6 led to the arrest of a Kankakee man.

Officers were called to a Batavia home at 5:44 p.m. Friday after a resident reported seeing two unknown men inside the house while remotely monitoring a home surveillance system, Batavia police said.

A Crystal Lake man is accused of “repeatedly” sexually abusing and assaulting a child from 2018 through 2023, when she was between 6 and 10 years old, a McHenry County judge said.

A Crystal Lake man with two pending cases from 2021, alleging he solicited and possessed images of child sex abuse, has been detained again on new, similar charges.

A man was taken into custody outside the McHenry County courthouse Wednesday by agents wearing masks and Homeland Security vests who witnesses said smashed the window of his car before detaining him.

A man has admitted to threatening children who were riding bikes at Crystal Lake South High School and telling them that he was going to shoot them.

An IDOT worker told a Shannon woman who admitted to hitting him with her car on a Marengo roadway that although his “life has changed forever,” he forgives her.

A Kewanee man admitted in McHenry County court that he killed a woman’s cat after physically abusing the woman in Harvard following the 2023 Super Bowl.

After a full-day’s work, a Whiteside County jury was seated Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, to hear a wrongful death civil case that could see the jury asked to award tens of millions of dollars to a Sterling firefighter’s widow and children.

A Villa Park teenager accused of punching a Villa Park police officer in the face after leading police on a high-speed chase will remain in jail until at least his next court appearance, prosecutors said

A judge has ordered the Will County Sheriff’s Office to pay a Mokena man more than $19,000 following the dismissal of a forfeiture case that his attorney claimed involved “outrageous misconduct.”

Charges have been dismissed against two Chicago men who were accused of scamming a Spring Grove couple out of $100,000, though one of the defendants paid back half the money, officials said.

An Addison man has been charged with felonies after authorities said he fired multiple gunshots at police, striking one officer in a protective vest during a four-hour standoff at his home Thursday.

A McHenry woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $22,000 from her child’s estate and was sentenced to 30 months of "second-chance probation" – a chance to wipe it clean from her record.

A man fired multiple gunshots at police officers, striking one in a protective vest, during an hourslong standoff Thursday at an Addison home, authorities said.

An Island Lake man had been accused of viewing thousands of videos depicting child sexual abuse that one investigator called among "the worst" he'd seen. The man pleaded guilty to one video and is headed to prison.