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Cook County, IL – Extra patrols by Cook County Sheriff’s police will be taking place this weekend as part of an ongoing effort to keep streets safe and help prevent crime, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said today. The saturation patrols will be county wide and run from 9 p.m. Saturday, May 4 through Sunday, May [...]

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Photo submitted by citizen near Madison, Wisconsin showing Dane County SWAT BearCat vehicle in service on a manhunt for Paris Poe — a fugitive from Illinois (PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Kite). Illinois fugitive, Paris Poe, was arrested Thursday about 7:00 p.m. on state Highway 30 in Madison, Wisconsin after a daylong manhunt in south-central Wisconsin. Several [...]

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Police sketch of abduction suspect from Cook County Sheriff’s Police. MAINE TOWNSHIP, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who grabbed a girl and tried to drag her into a wooded area in Maine Township on Wednesday. The 12-year-old girl fought back, bit the hand [...]

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CHICAGO, IL – Cook County Sheriff’s Officers located an 8-month-old boy whose mother fled with him from a Chicago treatment center on April 9th, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Officers located the infant with his 41-year-old mother, who is on parole for retail theft, Monday afternoon in west suburban Oak Park. The Illinois Department [...]

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Richard Vody (Cook County Sheriff’s Police photo). JUSTICE, IL – A 28-year-old Justice man has been charged for biting a piece of another man’s ear off during a domestic dispute, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said today. Richard Vody, of the 7800 block of Garden Lane, was charged with one count of home invasion, [...]

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CHICAGO, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart has directed a Chicago-based property management company to immediately cease and desist from providing tenants in Cook County, who reside in properties that are the subject of foreclosure proceedings, with illegal notices that contain threats and misleading, inaccurate information. CHIProperties, of Chicago, has been posting notices [...]

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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced the results of the fourth “National Day of Johns Arrests.” Law enforcement agencies from across the United States continue to join the anti-demand momentum with a Columbus Day operation. More than 20 United States law enforcement agencies from 12 different states simultaneously conducted sting activities on the streets, in [...]

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Allegedly Pawned Jewelry at Arlington Heights Pawn Shop — Arlington Heights Jewelry and Loan Cook County, IL… The Cook County Sheriff’s Police took a certified nurse assistant into custody this weekend after uncovering that she was stealing jewelry from her elderly patients for the last five years. In January 2012, a man reported that several [...]

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Elk Grove Village police assisted Cook County Sheriff’s deputies about 5:25 a.m. Saturday in the search for a man reported to be carrying an AK-47 in the 400 block of West Touhy Avenue. A witness saw a man possibly carrying an AK-47 with an extended clip near a trailer park in the 400 block and [...]

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Lauren McClain (police photo). CHICAGO , IL… An employee of K-Mart/Sears Holdings Inc was charged with theft after an internal investigation concluded she stole over $48,000 from the company within just a nine-month period. Lauren McClain, 32, of Chicago, was working at K-Mart for ten years and most recently was employed as a Cash Office [...]

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COOK COUNTY, IL… Cook County Sheriff’s Police took Brandon Brown, 27, of Lansing, IL, into custody Tuesday night on a warrant issued for a first degree murder charge out of Iowa City, Iowa in June. According to Iowa police officials, Brown allegedly was in a verbal argument with a victim who he then shot multiple [...]

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CHICAGO, IL… Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s “National Day of Johns Arrests” campaign launched its third nationwide sweep this month which resulted in 268 arrests of “Johns” and charged with $299,710 in fines. This national sweep, named “Operation: Buyer Beware”, included 20 United States law enforcement agencies in eleven different states simultaneously conducting sting activities [...]

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