Crime

A third arrest has been made by Kankakee police related to a shooting in the 200 block of South Rosewood Avenue on April 30.

Kankakee police arrested Frances T. Rogers earlier this week after officers allegedly found her with a gas can and a lit cigarette as she stood on the porch of a residence in the 700 block of East Locust Street.

A Lake County judge on Friday granted the state’s petition to detain a Gurnee-area teacher who has been charged in connection with having images of child sexual abuse.

A motion was denied Friday to detain pre-trial a Chicago man accused of robbing at gunpoint a postal carrier, prosecutors said.

A Huntley man’s family settled for $11 million after their son Joseph Zephries was hit and killed on a roadwork site. But the driver who struck him was only ever charged with petty driving offenses.

Hilary Agnello, a volleyball coach for Prairie Ridge High and dean at Crystal Lake South High, has been charged with misdemeanor DUI and child endangerment following a crash in Crystal Lake, according to police and court records.

Kankakee police investigated a shots fired incident that occurred Wednesday in the 400 block of North East Avenue.

The Fox Lake Police Department has arrested a Round Lake Park woman in connection with drugs that were found during a traffic stop, police said.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Group, a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area-funded task force, achieved a record-breaking year in 2024.

The family of a 20-year-old Huntley man who was fatally struck by a car while performing utility work last year on a Huntley road received a record $11.5 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Joliet police arrested a woman following a disturbance at Motel 6 in Joliet. She faces charges for aggravated battery to a peace officer.

A Woodstock man convicted twice of sexually assaulting a four-year-old child won another appeal and a shot at a third trial, in another twist in a case that included a judge overturning his own verdict.

A Cicero man who prosecutors said turned the Fox River Grove Jewel-Osco parking lot into an “open-air drug market” was found guilty Tuesday of selling cocaine there twice last year.

A federal judge found the police misconduct claims in a lawsuit over the 2020 in-custody death of Eric Lurry were strong enough for trial and possibly receive a favorable verdict. 

An Itasca man is being detained pretrial on charges he possessed and disseminated child sexual abuse materials.

The Iroquois County Sheriff’s Department arrested Nicholas Gregory, of Milford, after he allegedly shot and killed 57-year-old Angela Taylor, of Donovan, Monday.

Former Will County correctional officer Daniel Herod has had his case for child sexual abuse continued until June. He remains held in jail.

McHenry County prosecutors allege that a married McHenry man molested the 7-year-old child of a person he met on a dating application and was in a relationship with.

The Iroquois County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a shooting Monday that left one person dead and the alleged shooter arrested.

A felon pleaded guilty Monday to gun and drug charges related to a shooting in Harvard last year and was sentenced to six years in prison.

A McHenry County judge ruled that a convicted felon from Waukegan intended to kill a McHenry man when he shot at his “Batman” car three times.

A Joliet man is being held in Will County jail for allegedly stabbing a woman during an incident in which he was stabbed in the chest.

A man accused of possessing and sharing images of children and toddlers “screaming and crying” as they were being sexually assaulted by adult males was detained in McHenry County jail Wednesday.

Joliet police are investigating a weekend shooting which left two homes and six vehicles damaged by gunfire.

A 24-year-old man was shot to death Saturday evening during an altercation in Downers Grove, police said.

A Wonder Lake man has been accused of punching a 7-year-old with special needs in the stomach, slapping him and throwing him to the ground for wearing the wrong pants, a prosecutor said.

Marengo police arrested a man early Saturday who they said possessed six roosters, cockfighting equipment and nearly $10,000.

Calls came in for help at two separate crashes occurring in Marengo Saturday within a minute of each other, authorities said.

A Crystal Lake man accused of possessing images of children being bound and sexually assaulted previously worked as a volunteer wrestling coach for Deerfield High School, Township High School District 113 has confirmed.

A Woodstock man accused of entering a Crystal Lake home and threatening a woman with a crowbar has been sentenced to one day of conditional discharge.

At about midnight Friday authorities said there was a two-vehicle crash westbound on Interstate 90 just west of Harmony Road in McHenry County.

A former Wonder Lake man was sentenced to one year conditional discharge Friday for not providing medical care to his child when he was shot with a pellet gun by a sibling.

“The safety of our students and school staff is our highest priority,” Montgomery Police chief Phil Smith said in the release. “We commend the school staff and administrators for their immediate response and cooperation.”

Alexander Evan Cohen of Crystal Lake is charged with possessing “several” videos of “deplorable” images showing children being bound, gagged and sexually assaulted, a prosecutor said Friday during the man’s initial appearance.

A former McHenry man accused of threatening to shoot two Marengo police officers with their own guns has been sentenced to one day conditional discharge and jail time served.

A Wonder Lake man who led police on chase by boat to the Wisconsin woods “like Rambo” has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl and was sentenced to four years in prison.

A man wanted for a shooting that occurred last month in Paducah, Kentucky, was arrested Monday by Kankakee police.

The number of reports of stolen vehicles and burglaries in Sterling also increased in 2024, according to the report.

Two people are accused of throwing a homemade ‘firebomb’ at a residence in Crystal Lake last month allegedly tied to a drug deal gone bad.

A Barrington acupuncturist accused of fondling a client in her Crystal Lake home has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and was sentenced to 50 hours public service and one year conditional discharge.

Two people were arrested Tuesday by Kankakee police in connection with an April 30 shooting on South Rosewood Avenue.

The woman accused of critically injuring a man during an alleged attack outside a Bradley business last month was indicted by a Kankakee County grand jury last week.

A McHenry man was running errands and “minding his own business” when a Waukegan man threw a bottle at his vehicle and then shot at the car with a gun, a prosecutor said at the man’s trial.

Charges have been filed against five Venezuelan migrants, all male juveniles currently residing in Chicago, for allegedly stealing merchandise from two Oak Brook stores in two unrelated incidents.

A Cary man is accused of possessing graphic images of children being sexually abused.

A man on pretrial release from McHenry County jail when charged last week in two separate cases accused of illegally possessing cocaine and a stolen pistol is now detained.

An arson attempt occurred Saturday at a Villa Park cannabis dispensary.

Downers Grove and Woodridge police are investigating several commercial burglaries that occurred in both communities in the early morning hours Sunday, authorities said.

A second man has pleaded guilty in the beating and armed robbery of a teenager who thought he was going to a Wonder Lake location to buy $500 of marijuana.

Pre-trial release was denied a Chicago woman accused of leading police on a chase from Bloomingdale to Lombard after an alleged retail theft Friday by her passenger.