Crime Stories from January 6, 2023
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Algonquin man pleads not guilty in second drug case within six months
Jan 6, 2023 9:34 PM - A 36-year-old Algonquin man pleaded not guilty Friday to possessing and trafficking thousands of grams of marijuana, the second felony case in which he's been charged in the past six months.
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Illinois House passes new ban on high-powered weapons, large-capacity magazinesJan 6, 2023 8:06 PM - A bill that would ban the sale and manufacture of assault weapons in Illinois advanced out of the state House on Thursday and now awaits action in the Senate. The bill was prompted in large part by the July 4 mass shooting in Highland Park during an Independence Day parade which left seven people dead and dozens more injured or traumatized.
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'He's not dangerous': Police release recordings of murdered wife's previous 911 callsJan 6, 2023 7:02 PM - A series of 911 calls made by Vera and Andrei Kisliak were released Friday, shedding more light on how problems in their estranged marriage escalated in the months leading up to Andrei's murdering his wife, mother and two young daughters in their Buffalo Grove home.
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After more than 2 years, Round Lake Beach police find suspect in fatal crashJan 6, 2023 6:12 PM - A 28-year-old Round Lake Beach man with an arrest warrant for his role in a 2020 DUI crash that killed two people is now behind bars after being apprehended by police responding to a domestic situation in late December.
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Jen Shah of 'Real Housewives' gets 6½-year prison term
Jan 6, 2023 3:52 PM - Jennifer Shah, a tearful member of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" who insisted she is not the character she plays on the show, was sentenced Friday to 6½ years in prison for defrauding thousands of people, many of them vulnerable or older, in a telemarketing scam that stretched nearly a decade.
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Mexico gives account of violence after 'Chapo' son nabbed
Jan 6, 2023 3:04 PM - The operation to detain Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, unleashed firefights that turned the northern city of Culiacan into a war zone, authorities said Friday.
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2 years after Jan. 6, speaker scrap paralyzes Congress again
Jan 6, 2023 2:28 PM - The nation's legislative branch is again paralyzed -- not by violence this time but by a tortuous struggle among Republicans over who should lead them, and the House itself, as speaker.
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Kenyan LGBTQ activist's body found in metal box; 1 arrested
Jan 6, 2023 2:28 PM - Kenyan police investigated the death of an LGBTQ activist whose body was found stuffed in a metal box as human rights groups on Friday decried the killing and police announced one arrest.
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Prosecutor: Don't let man charged with reckless homicide in bus crash keep drivingJan 6, 2023 12:38 PM - A Kane County prosecutor has asked that a man charged with killing two people in a crash be forbidden from driving while his case is heard.
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One injured in Des Plaines shooting, three young men in custodyJan 6, 2023 11:52 AM - Three young men, including two minors, are being held in connection to a gang-related shooting that left one person injured Thursday night in Des Plaines, police announced Friday morning.
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