Bloomingdale Crime
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Jury: Oak Brook soldier guilty of predatory criminal sexual assault
Jul 20, 2019 2:11 PM - A soldier from Oak Brook has been found guilty of repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl while he lived in her home, authorities announced. -
Winfield man accused of head-butting Wheaton squad
Jul 19, 2019 8:42 PM - One of four men recently charged in DuPage County with impersonating a police officer at area homes is again behind bars.Luke Halstead, 19, of the 1N500 block of Turnberry, near Winfield, has been charged with criminal damage to government supported property, related to a July 3 arrest in Wheaton. -
DuPage jail's welding program yields first inmates graduating with 'hope and purpose'
Jul 19, 2019 5:33 AM - When does a sheriff hug jail detainees? When he's proud of the first graduates of a new job-training program at the DuPage County jail. "You guys are at the beginning part of greater things to come," Mendrick told the grads.
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Glendale Heights woman charged in elaborate identify theft scheme
Jul 18, 2019 4:11 PM - A Glendale Heights woman has been charged in connection with the theft of tens of thousands of dollars through an elaborate scheme involving stealing the identities of more than two dozen victims, authorities said Thursday. -
'You had me terrified': 15-year-old testifies against man charged with sexually assaulting her
Jul 18, 2019 2:23 PM - A 15-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted over several years by a man she knew, looked her alleged attacker in the eye Thursday as he cross-examined her on a DuPage County witness stand and told him how he ruined her childhood. -
Trial begins for Army specialist charged in Oak Brook sexual assaults of girl
Jul 17, 2019 7:44 PM - A 15-year-old girl's voice shook Wednesday in DuPage County as she detailed the conflicting feelings she had as a 7-year-old girl who was inappropriately touched and later sexually assaulted by a man she trusted. "They taught us in school that only doctors, our parents and trusted adults should touch us," the girl testified. "I was confused. Alarm bells we're going off but I pushed past it." -
Aurora man gets 30 years in 2015 robbery plot
Jul 16, 2019 8:08 PM - An Aurora man with a long criminal record recently was sentenced to 30 years in prison after his arrest and conviction in 2015 of possessing a handgun with the intent of robbing a person at gunpoint. In a May 2018 trial, a jury convicted Ronald Smith, 36, of being an armed habitual criminal. -
'I'm going to slash all four tires!': Clerk gets 2 years in prison for Lombard hate crime
Jul 16, 2019 5:00 PM - A Lombard shop clerk, who pleaded guilty to hate crime charges last month, has been sentenced to prison. -
Sources: Mom texted about 'unruly' kids before Elmhurst-area shooting, then texted she did it
Jul 15, 2019 9:03 PM - Jaime Jones did not leave a note detailing what drove her to shoot her two teenage sons multiple times Friday before setting fire to her Elmhurst-area home and fatally shooting herself, authorities said Monday. But investigators are examining the 43-year-old mother's other communications leading up to the slayings of Jason M. Harris, 16, and Nathan A. Harris, 19, and her own death. -
'Inconceivable': Mother killed teen sons, then herself in Elmhurst-area home, sheriff says
Jul 15, 2019 9:03 PM - A mother shot her two teenage sons to death Friday before setting fire to her Elmhurst-area home and killing herself, DuPage County authorities said Sunday. "An act like this is completely inconceivable," Sheriff James Mendrick said.
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