Cook County Crime
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Police: St. Charles man pistol-whipped couple in Elgin apartment
Nov 13, 2018 5:20 PM - A 41-year-old St. Charles man is charged with entering an Elgin apartment early Saturday, and beating a woman and a man with a gun and causing a shot to be fired. -
$2 million bail for suspect in Elgin shooting that wounded three
Oct 23, 2018 6:25 PM - A 22-year-old Elgin man has been arrested and charged with shooting and wounding three men early Sunday in Elgin. Luis K. Mora-Otero faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted and police are still searching for another man. -
Elgin kidnapping, cigarette torture case set for March trial
Oct 2, 2018 1:59 PM - A Kane County judge Tuesday denied a motion to ban from trial a woman's statements to Elgin police regarding a teen who was kidnapped and tortured with lit cigarettes. Lino is the final defendant in the case; four others have pleaded guilty and were sent to prison. -
3 years' prison for Elgin man's 4th DUI conviction
Sep 27, 2018 5:16 PM - An Elgin man arrested earlier this year on charges of his sixth DUI has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a reduced charge. -
More than 80 arrested in Cook, Lake county prostitution stings
Aug 29, 2018 6:05 PM - Cook County Sheriff's and Arlington Heights police combined to make 75 arrests of suspected prostitution customers during a monthlong national law enforcement effort, authorities announced Wednesday. -
Two men shot near Des Plaines early SundayJul 24, 2018 4:10 PM - Two men were shot and hospitalized in unincorporated Maine Township near Des Plaines early Sunday morning, police said.
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Teen gets 6 years in 2017 carjacking of Elgin man trying to sell car
Jul 19, 2018 4:58 PM - An 18-year-old from Chicago accused in a November 2017 knife-point carjacking of an Elgin man who was trying to sell his car pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge and was sentenced to six years in prison. -
Schneider wants hearing over fatal crash blamed on Cook forest preserve driver
Jul 12, 2018 4:52 PM - A suburban Cook County commissioner is calling for a hearing to investigate the circumstances that allowed a 20-year-old seasonal employee of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County to be driving a truck blamed for a six-vehicle pileup that killed a Bloomingdale man. -
Third person sought in Elgin home invasion, shooting over marijuana
Jul 12, 2018 4:09 PM - A third person is wanted in the May 29 home invasion and shooting in Elgin over an ounce of marijuana. Demetrius Cochran, 19, is wanted after failing to appear in court this week on an unrelated charge. -
Elgin man who bit off part of finger in fight gets jail, probation
Jul 2, 2018 12:04 PM - An Elgin man accused of biting off part of a man's finger during a fight in late 2017 has been sentenced to jail time, probation and ordered to undergo an evaluation.
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