Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– eNews Park Forest just discovered a March 9, 2010 press release on Matanky.com, the Web site of Matanky Realty Group, announcing the "new owner" of the Holiday Star Theater. The release further states, "He said he literally grew up in movie theaters and has worked in the[Read More…]

Kenneth Arron. (PHOTO: PFPD) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– One might say it all started to unravel with a hot dog. On August 19, a woman purchased a hot dog at the Holiday Star Theater. According to a report of the incident received by eNews Park Forest, she paid with a credit[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A former U.S. Small Business Administration employee is facing federal fraud charges for allegedly selling-off delinquent loans on behalf of the agency to two relatives, while failing to disclose his relationship to them, and sharing the profit from the private collection of two of the loans. The defendant,[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A Ponzi scheme that spanned 22 years and resulted in losses totaling more than $30 million to hundreds of individuals had “a horrific impact” on the victims, including many elderly Italian immigrants, a federal judge declared today in imposing the maximum possible prison term on the defendant. U.S.[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2010.  Former Indianapolis and Marion County, Ind., City-County Councilman Lincoln Plowman has been charged with attempted extortion and soliciting a bribe, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer for the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. Morrison of the Southern District of Indiana. The indictment, returned by[Read More…]

Kenneth Arron speaks to the Village Board in March 2010, identifying himself as ‘Kenny Yochelson.’ (Photo: ENEWSPF) Updated at 11:42 a.m. with more video. Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– In the 1957 musical The Music Man, Professor Harold Hill arrives by train in River City Iowa and begins to work his a[Read More…]

Reward Offer Increased to $50,000 Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Authorities are once again asking for the public’s help in identifying the serial robber suspected of as many as 16 armed takeover-style robberies of banks and credit unions in the western suburbs. Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the[Read More…]

Philadelphia, PA–(ENEWSPF)– Gina Marie Kepler, 34, of Warrington, PA, was sentenced today to three years in prison for Hobbs Act Extortion, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Kepler was a former State Police Liquor Enforcement Officer (“LEO”) when, between October 2006 and October 2008, she used the power of[Read More…]

Indianapolis, IN–(ENEWSPF)– Robert E. Tolle, 40, Greenwood, Indiana, was sentenced to 22 months in prison today by U.S. District Judge Tonya Walton Pratt after pleading guilty to charges of making fraudulent bank entries. This case was the result of an investigation by the FBI. Tolle, a former Old National Bank[Read More…]