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Child sex offender charged with loitering near Elgin park
By Harry Hitzeman
Jul 13, 2018 5:08 PM - A homeless man and child sex offender was arrested Thursday on felony charges he was loitering around Festival Park and splash pad in downtown Elgin.
Third person sought in Elgin home invasion, shooting over marijuana
By Harry Hitzeman
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.
28-year prison term for man in brutal Elgin home invasion
By Harry Hitzeman
Jul 12, 2018 8:20 AM - An Elgin man was sentenced this week to 28 years in prison for his role in a June 2012 home invasion and attempted murder in which two people were brutally beaten in Elgin. Jaime Zarate, 32, was on parole for a 2006 attempted murder when he was arrested and a 5-year-old boy witnessed part of the attack.
17-year-old charged with weapons, drug offenses after Aurora traffic stop
Daily Herald staff
Jul 10, 2018 2:13 PM - A 17-year-old from Aurora faces several felony charges after authorities say he was caught with a loaded 9 mm handgun and Xanax pills during a traffic stop last week, police said.
5 years in prison for 4th DUI that injured pedestrian in Aurora
By Harry Hitzeman
Jul 9, 2018 5:19 PM - A 48-year-old Montgomery man has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to his fourth DUI in December 2016 in downtown Aurora in which he struck a pedestrian, had a blood alcohol content that was more than twice the legal threshold and was found with open liquor in his vehicle.
Prosecutors want to hike bond for Elgin kidnapping, cigarette torture suspect
By Harry Hitzeman
Jul 9, 2018 11:27 AM - Authorities want to increase or revoke bond for the fifth and final defendant in a Elgin kidnapping and cigarette torture case because she left the state without a judge's permission.
Overdose could get St. Charles man caught with heroin, stolen guns booted from drug court
By Harry Hitzeman
Jul 6, 2018 3:18 PM - A man arrested in St Charles last year who tried to escape with stolen guns by jumping into a detention pond is in danger of being thrown out of Kane County's Drug Court because he overdosed this week, according to court records.
Inexperience, indifference, deference. How Donnie Rudd almost got away with murder.
By Chuck Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Jul 6, 2018 8:28 AM - The red flags were everywhere. And yet for more than four decades, nobody publicly suggested the death of 19-year-old newlywed Noreen Kumeta Rudd was anything but a tragic accident. Why?
Man wants new trial in 2014 murder of wife, found 'staged' on Geneva train tracks
By Harry Hitzeman
Jul 5, 2018 12:21 PM - A man convicted of killing his wife in 2014 and dumping her body on the railroad tracks in Geneva is seeking a new trial.
3 cops hurt, suspect killed after South Elgin standoff
By Susan Sarkauskas
Jul 5, 2018 10:47 AM - A 52-year-old man was killed and three police officers were wounded early Wednesday morning during a shootout that followed a four-hour standoff on the 300 block of Woodridge Circle in South Elgin, police said.

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