Local Crime

Two teenagers attacked two sheriff’s deputies by biting, punching and attempting to disarm them, during an incident near Antioch Sunday afternoon, officials said. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded around 3:30 p.m. Sunday to the 25000 block of Grass Lake Road in unincorporated Antioch for a domestic battery in progress. Read more...

Numerous felony charges have been filed against a woman accused of ramming a stolen car into police cars and dragging a police officer, leaving him injured, in Waukegan Saturday. The Waukegan Police Department responded to investigate a stolen vehicle around 10 a.m. Saturday at the Starbucks, 3300 Grand Avenue. Read more...

Police have released a sketch of a suspect wanted for trying to lure two children into his minivan as they were on their way to their bus stops in Round Lake last week. The Round Lake Police Department responded around 6:50 a.m. Tuesday to the 30 block of MacGillis Drive in Round Lake for reports [...]

A jury late Monday convicted a Round Lake man of fatally shooting a 77-year-old man in the head with an AK-47-style pistol at an apartment in Fox Lake. Azmi Ibrahim Jr., 38, of Round Lake, was charged in December 2022 with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of obstructing justice. Read more...

A Wauconda man and an Island Lake man were arrested after an investigation into cocaine sales in DuPage County that resulted in officers finding one of the men with a loaded gun. The Naperville Police Department said they recently concluded a month-long investigation into cocaine sales in their town. Read more...

An elderly man was found covered in blood after he was stabbed in the neck by his son during an argument at an apartment in Waukegan, prosecutors said. David K. Amoako-Dennis, 23, of Waukegan, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm, aggravated domestic battery, aggravated battery to a victim over [...]

A grand jury has indicted a man who allegedly murdered a pregnant woman, kept her body in his car for days and then dumped the body along a roadway near Wadsworth. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded around 7 a.m. on November 29 to Hunt Club Road south of Route 173 in Old Mill Creek. [...]

Prosecutors say a man, who was a “total stranger,” sexually abused a young child after she walked out of her apartment to take the trash out in Waukegan. Osmar Benavides-Olivas, 26, of Waukegan, was charged with one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child, a Class 2 felony. Read more...

A Zion man, who prosecutors said was found with two guns, allegedly fired a shot from one apartment to another in Waukegan — nearly striking a woman who was lying on a bed. Rodney C. Bradin, 36, of Zion, was charged with reckless discharge of a firearm, two counts of felon in possession of a [...]