Local Crime

ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. — One person is dead and another is injured after a high speed crash followed a reported home invasion in Round Lake Beach Wednesday afternoon. According to the Round Lake Beach Police Department (RLBPD), officers were called to a domestic home invasion around 4:15 p.m. in the 100 block of Beachview [...]

Two suspects carjacked an Uber driver at gunpoint in Waukegan and then a short time later led police officers on a pursuit early Wednesday morning. The Waukegan Police Department responded around 2:25 a.m. Wednesday to the 2700 block of East Bonnie Brook Lane for a report of an aggravated vehicular hijacking. Read more...

A man has been sentenced to 12 months of periodic imprisonment after pleading guilty to recklessly discharging a gun inside a restaurant, leaving a patron shot, in Waukegan last year. Ruben Perez-Gomez, 38, of Waukegan, was charged in July 2022 with reckless discharge of a firearm, a Class 4 felony, and aggravated unlawful use of [...]

A Waukegan man wanted for over a year for allegedly attacking a woman and firing a shot in Waukegan has been taken into custody and denied pre-trial release. Thaxter McKnight, 30, of Waukegan, was charged with one count of possession or use of a firearm by a felon, a Class 3 felony. Read more...

A 21-year-old man has been charged after prosecutors say he was found with a loaded gun after he and another person showed up at a psychiatric hospital in Waukegan with gunshot wounds. Darius D. Redmond, 21, of Wheeling, was charged in July with three counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. Read more...

A judge rejected a man’s request to be released under the SAFE-T Act after being charged with attacking two victims with a skateboard in Crystal Lake, leaving them seriously injured. Brandon M. Brown, 29, of Cary, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm, two counts of aggravated battery using a [...]

A man has been arrested after multiple suspects forcibly broke into a home in Highland Park, awakening sleeping residents inside, and stealing over $100,000 worth of jewelry. Joe Mitchell, 37, of Harwood Heights, was charged with one count of residential burglary and one count of theft over $100,000, both Class 1 felonies. Read more...

A Beach Park man was caught by responding officers after he forced entry to a gun store and attempted to steal guns from it in Winthrop Harbor, prosecutors said. Robert A. Tello, 30, of Beach Park, was charged with burglary, criminal damage to property, possession of burglary tools, two counts of resisting arrest and obstructing [...]

Police chased down three teenage suspects, one as young as 13 years old, and arrested them after they burglarized vehicles and fled from officers in Zion. The Zion Police Department responded around 10:25 p.m. on October 3 to the 2800 block of Gabriel Avenue in Zion for a vehicle burglary in progress. Read more...

A judge denied release for a Round Lake Beach man who said “I thought I killed her” after being surprised to learn his girlfriend, who he allegedly critically injured in an attack, was still alive following his arrest. Lake County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli said Sanjuan Reyes, 36, of Round Lake Beach, drove [...]