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A drunk driver running away from a car crash where an off-duty police officer died was chased down and tackled to the ground by a bystander, and it was caught on video. Euless Police Detective Alex Cervantes was killed when Dylan Molina ran a red light in November 2021 and crashed his rented Jeep into [...]

Prosecutors say a man struck a child and also battered a woman, leaving them injured, during a domestic incident in Round Lake Beach last week. Magdaleno Gonzalez-Navarro, 36, of Round Lake Beach, was charged with two counts of domestic battery causing bodily harm and two counts of domestic battery physical contact. Read more...

A SWAT team took an Antioch man into custody on felony drug charges after finding a variety of drugs during a high-risk warrant in Antioch Thursday. The Antioch Police Department said they assisted the Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group around 6 a.m. Thursday. Read more...

A woman is in serious condition after she was beaten and run over as a suspect stole her car, abducting her two-year-old child who was inside the car near Libertyville. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded around 3:35 p.m. Thursday to the 16000 block of West Buckley Road in unincorporated Libertyville. Read more...

A Waukegan man has been charged with attacking multiple family members, leaving them injured, and leading police on a nine-hour standoff that ended with a SWAT team arresting him. The incident began around 8 a.m. Tuesday at a house in the 1800 block of West Ridgeland Avenue in Waukegan. Read more...

A SWAT team took a suspect into custody after he battered multiple people, leaving three injured, at a residence in Waukegan and led police on a nine-hour standoff. The incident began around 8 a.m. Tuesday at a house in the 1800 block of West Ridgeland Avenue in Waukegan. Read more...

Police say a masked suspect stole a car with two children sleeping inside from the parking lot of a restaurant in Zion and then later forced the children out of the car. The Zion Police Department responded around 6:23 p.m. Monday to Supreme fries and More, 2109 Lewis Avenue in Zion, for a report of [...]

An 8-year-old boy has been released from the hospital but is expected to undergo surgery after being wounded during a shooting in Round Lake Beach Saturday evening, police said. The Round Lake Beach Police Department received a 911 call around 8:39 p.m. Saturday for a report of shots fired in the 500 block of Meadow [...]

A Round Lake man, who was arrested on a warrant and also charged in a burglary, was captured after he escaped from the police station in Mundelein, prosecutors said. James Way, 22, of Round Lake, was charged with escape from a peace officer, burglary, identity theft and unlawful possession of a credit or debit card. [...]

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. — Lake County deputies are looking for two men they said stole a car Thursday afternoon from a driveway with a two-year-old boy inside and ran over his pregnant mother. It all started around 3:35 p.m. in the 16000 block of Route 137 in unincorporated Libertyville when the 34-year-old woman got back home. [...]