Lake County’s Special Investigations Group seized a record amount of fentanyl in 2023 and also uncovered a human trafficking operation that resulted in the rescue of five victims, authorities said. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Group (SIG) is a High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) funded task force.
A police department in McHenry County has issued a warning to the community urging students to not participate in “Senior Assassin” in public after a CCL holder nearly mistook the game for a real threat. Harvard Police Chief Tyson Bauman and Harvard High School Principal Carl Hobbs issued a joint statement to the community Thursday [...]
Police are warning the community after a concealed carry holder at a restaurant in Gurnee nearly mistook masked high schoolers with water guns for an actual threat. The Gurnee Police Department in a community alert Wednesday addressed incidents occurring nationwide and recently in the community associated with a game known as “Senior Assassins.”
A man was found hiding from police inside a random bystander’s vehicle after he allegedly opened fire at a victim following an armed robbery in Gurnee. Gavino Romero Jr., 19, of Chicago, was indicted Wednesday by a grand jury on charges of armed robbery with the discharge of a firearm, aggravated discharge of a firearm, [...]
Authorities say a sheriff’s deputy shot a dog after multiple aggressive dogs, one of which remains on the loose, attacked people in a neighborhood near McHenry. The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office responded just before 6 p.m. Thursday to the area of West Heumann Drive and Stilling Boulevard in unincorporated McHenry.
Sheriff’s deputies successfully de-escalated two separate potentially deadly incidents involving subjects who were armed and in a mental crisis in Lake County this week. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded on Tuesday to a residence in unincorporated Deerfield for a report of a man in mental crisis.
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday will warn of an "elevated threat" to U.S. public safety and national security while advocating for an increased budget. "Looking back over my career in law enforcement, I’d be hard-pressed to think of a time where so many threats to our public safety and national security were so elevated [...]
We live in dangerous times. That is the simple message FBI Director Christopher Wray will deliver Thursday when he warns of an “elevated threat” to U.S. public safety and national security while seeking a budget boost. Wray is set to tell a House of Representatives panel of just how America can be threatened through the execution [...]
Cowlitz County Superior Court Judge Gary Bashor on Monday found Washington state’s “high capacity” magazine ban violated both the U.S. Constitution and the state’s own constitution. The Associated Press noted Bashor reached his decision by weighing the ban in light of the Supreme Court of the United States’ Bruen (2022) decision.
The FBI has arrested an 18-year-old in Idaho after uncovering his "truly horrific" and "violent plot" to attack churches in Coeur d’Alene this past weekend on behalf of ISIS, the Justice Department says. Alexander Mercurio is now facing a federal charge of attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization [...]
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