DeKalb County State's Attorney

A Hinckley man is facing charges after an Illinois Attorney General’s investigation alleged he was in possession of and also disseminated child pornography. He could face up to 120 years in jail, a DeKalb County judge said.

A trial date could be coming for a DeKalb man charged with fatally shooting a 33-year-old man 13 times over an alleged marijuana deal in March, a DeKalb County judge said.

To read some of Marlon King Jr.’s diary entries, he was a young father who had his future in mind. "Don’t judge him from his final day on the planet," mom Tara McCarthy said of her son, 19, killed in a DeKalb shooting May 11.

A DeKalb woman has been accused of defrauding her former employer, Cole Pallet, out of more than $1.4 million over a six-year span by cashing unauthorized checks, transferring funds and buying personal items on the company’s Amazon account and having them sent to her home.

Some DeKalb County Board members recently responded to one resident’s concerns over local criminal court plea deals in the wake of DeKalb 15-year-old Gracie Sasso-Cleveland’s death. Court officials say plea deals are complex.

A DeKalb County judge has denied bond to both men facing first-degree murder charges in the fatal shooting earlier this month of 19-year-old Marlon King Jr. Their cases have both been reassigned to Judge Philip Montgomery.

A Genoa registered sex offender on probation after spending nearly five decades in prison for the 1962 sexually motivated murder of a 3-year-old Harvard girl is accused of attempting to lure two girls on Monday, according to court records.

The second man charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 19-year-old Marlon A. King Jr. is asking for a new judge to preside over his case as he awaits a bond hearing rescheduled for next week. King was a 2022 DeKalb High School graduate.

Timothy Doll, charged with murder in the death of Gracie Sasso-Cleveland, was denied bond and any opportunity for release while he awaits his criminal proceedings Wednesday by Judge Philip Montgomery, newly assigned to the case after Doll requested a judge change.

A DeKalb man charged with murder in the grisly death of teenager Gracie Sasso-Cleveland wants a different judge to preside over his case than the current one who sentenced him last month after he pleaded guilty in an unrelated 2020 sex abuse case.

Timothy M. Doll, charged with murder in the May 4 death of Gracie Sasso-Cleveland, 15, appointed new defense lawyer as some women gathered outside DeKalb County Courthouse to call for stricter sex offender laws. A judge is expected to review his bond again Tuesday.

One of two DeKalb men charged with first-degree murder in the Thursday shooting death of a 19-year-old 2022 DeKalb High School graduate was denied bail Saturday by a DeKalb County judge after prosecutors argued the man’s release would pose a public threat.

As the rain fell Friday night, Ericka Sasso stood mere feet from where her 15-year-old daughter’s body was found in a dumpster just days earlier and cried: She’s living a mother’s worst nightmare. "My worst nightmare come true," she said.

Two DeKalb men were charged with first-degree murder on Friday in the shooting death of a 19-year-old man during a confrontation on Russell Road the night before, police said.

A DeKalb County judge Monday reduced bond to $350,000 for a Huntley Middle School student teacher, 23, accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old student after his defense attorney argued he was a church-going gospel singer with no criminal history.