Wheeling Crime
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Father charged after infant's drug-related death near Des Plaines
May 5, 2022 3:48 PM - A Des Plaines-area man has been charged in the drug-related death of his infant son nearly a year ago, police announced Thursday. -
Wheeling resident accused of wielding golf club during Arlington Heights robbery
Apr 29, 2022 8:21 PM - Good communication between two police departments led to the capture of a Wheeling woman accused of robbing a convenience store in Arlington Heights. -
Sheriff's office warns calls are a scamApr 29, 2022 7:03 PM - If you have received a phone call from someone saying you owe money because you missed jury duty or have outstanding citations, you may have been targeted by a scammer, warns Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart.
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Police: Teen charged after fleeing scene of suspected street race in Bartlett
Apr 5, 2022 8:03 PM - Bartlett police officers called to investigate a report of several vehicles setting up a street race early Saturday arrested a 16-year-old boy on charges of fleeing or attempting to elude, reckless driving, and having no valid driver's license, officials said. -
Former Skokie flight attendant charged with possession of child pornographyApr 1, 2022 6:00 PM - Cook County sheriff's police have detained a flight attendant formerly of Skokie on charges of possession of child pornography. Sheriff's deputies began investigating the 39-year-old man in the wake of a 2021 investigation into a Wheeling man charged with possession and dissemination of child pornography.
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'Phone a friend': Cook County sheriff, Northbrook police partner on crisis intervention program
Apr 1, 2022 5:30 AM - A new partnership with the Cook County Sheriff's Office Treatment Response Team is bolstering the police department's 40-year history of handling crisis situations through its Counseling Services Unit. -
Smollett will serve jail time in protective custody
Mar 11, 2022 3:29 PM - Actor Jussie Smollett will be held in protective custody at Cook County jail -- alone in a cell monitored continuously by cameras and guards -- while serving his sentence for staging a hate crime against himself.
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ABC 7: How Wordle text helped save Lincolnwood woman from hostage situation
Feb 11, 2022 11:04 AM - Lincolnwood police said the online word game Wordle played a role in saving an 80-year-old woman from a hostage situation. -
Why a Kane County judge was livid with top prosecutor and public defender
Feb 11, 2022 9:54 AM - A Kane County judge took the county's top prosecutor and public defender to the woodshed last week, accusing them of violating a defendant's rights by getting his guilty plea in a DUI case vacated without the man's permission. And without the judge handling the case, which happens to be him.
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