Local Crime

Two men were arrested and guns were found after a vehicle fled from police and nearly struck multiple officers before crashing into another vehicle in Waukegan. Dwayne D. Gordon, 37, was charged with six counts of aggravated assault with a vehicle, aggravated fleeing to elude causing damage, failure to reduce speed, operating an uninsured motor [...]

FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. — A 9-year-old boy from Chicago was shot and killed while attending his grandmother’s 70th birthday party in Franklin Park Saturday night. Police said Ulysses Campos was playing near an alley in the 2800 block of Elder Lane when a disturbance took place. Shots were fired from a moving vehicle, and Ulysses [...]

Officers arrested a man who allegedly dropped a ghost gun onto the ground and tried running away while attending the Community Days festival in Mundelein, prosecutors said. Brandon Rojas, 19, of Mundelein, was charged with four counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. Read more...

Sheriff’s officials say a woman celebrating the Fourth of July fired a gun into Diamond Lake near Mundelein and thought the sound of fireworks would mask the gunfire. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded around 10 p.m. Monday to the 19300 block of West Forest Lane in unincorporated Mundelein for a call of shots fired. [...]

CHICAGO — A suburban man is being charged with multiple felony counts for impersonating a police officer and battery of teenage girls, Park Ridge Police said. According to police, 38-year-old James E. Tripi from Streamwood is facing two counts of false impersonation of a police officer, 2 more counts of unlawful restraint and two counts [...]

A Waukegan man was ordered held on a $3 million bond after prosecutors say he unsuccessfully tried to flee police on a dirt bike and ran away on foot while armed with a gun in Waukegan. Alejandro Sanchez-Valladares, 23, of Waukegan, was charged with two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, resisting a [...]

A man allegedly broke into a woman’s car at the veteran’s hospital in North Chicago and stole documents with her personal information, later calling her and threatening to kill her. Robert S. Jackson, 55, of North Chicago, was charged with harassment threatening to kill person, a Class 4 felony. Read more...

A judge ordered a man held on a $1 million bond after he allegedly fired a gun at a woman on the Woodstock Square Thursday and was taken into custody by a SWAT team in Harvard. Erick Gomez-Rubi, 23, of Harvard, was charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm, reckless discharge of a firearm, two [...]

The FBI said a woman robbed a bank in Round Lake Saturday afternoon and she is believed to be the same suspect wanted for robbing a bank in Round Lake Beach last week. The Round Lake Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) responded around 12 p.m. Saturday to First American Bank, 1865 South [...]

A man underwent surgery after he was stabbed allegedly by a woman who was armed with a large knife in Fox River Grove Thursday evening, court records show. Cynthia M. Done, 61, of Fox River Grove, was charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm, a Class 3 felony. Read more...