Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- An East St. Louis man, Kenneth C. Walton, 21, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court, East St. Louis, to unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Sentencing is[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released Hate Crime Statistics, 2010 based on information submitted by law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. These data indicate that 6,628 criminal incidents involving 7,699 offenses were reported in 2010 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation,[Read More…]

The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The principal owner and six top executives and employees of a former general contractor, together with two former employees of client companies, were indicted for allegedly engaging in a fraudulent billing and kickback scheme. The seven defendants affiliated with the former contractor, Krahl Construction, allegedly caused losses of[Read More…]

Rock Island, IL-(ENEWSPF)- U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced a Bettendorf, Iowa, man, Don Lawrence Asheim, to serve 30 months (two and a half years) in federal prison for providing false information related to a terrorist hoax in Moline in April 2010. Asheim, 60, of the 2500 block[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Two former road test examiners for the Illinois Secretary of State were indicted for allegedly accepting cash bribes to pass customers who were unqualified or never took the road test, federal law enforcement officials announced November 14. The charges stem from an investigation that was unveiled in 2009[Read More…]

The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other[Read More…]

Largest buck valued at $25,000 Springfield, IL –(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2011.  The Illinois Department of Natural Resources Office of Law Enforcement announced recent charges filed in Cook and Sangamon Counties against five men from Illinois and Michigan. The arrests came after a five month long deer poaching investigation. Illinois DNR Conservation[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2011.  A Riverton, Ill., man has been convicted for production and possession of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney James A. Lewis for the Central District of Illinois.  Jeffrey Price, 47, was convicted late Friday, Nov.[Read More…]