Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Police say a man was robbed at gunpoint while walking his pit bull dog in the 200 block of Sauk Trail on October 23. Police were dispatched to investigate an armed robbery at approximately 7:45 PM. The victim told them that, at approximately 7:30 PM, he was[Read More…]

Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Clayton developer pled guilty in U.S. District Court on October 27, 2011, for his role in the failed Bowman Estates construction project, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Harold Rosen, age 80, was indicted by a federal grand[Read More…]

  Learn More Read the complaint (PDF) Read Legal Director Harvey Grossman’s op-ed for the Chicago Sun-Times Sound off about police deployment in your neighborhood CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011. Chicago officials have failed to deploy police equitably across the City’s many diverse neighborhoods, resulting in disproportionate numbers of delayed police responses[Read More…]

TERRE HAUTE—(ENEWSPF)- Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney, announced this afternoon the indictment of four additional individuals in United States District Court in Terre Haute for their alleged roles in the criminal operations of the Sons of Silence motorcycle gang. “Working together with our federal and local law enforcement partners,[Read More…]

PEORIA, IL—(ENEWSPF)- A former Urbana, Ill., investment adviser, Timothy J. Roth, 56, currently of Stonington, Ill., appeared this morning in federal court in Peoria, where he waived indictment and pled guilty to an information charging him with engaging in a fraud scheme that resulted in victim losses of approximately $16[Read More…]

SPRINGFIELD, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Swansea man was sentenced on October 24, 2011, for producing child pornography the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced Monday. Cory Reibel, 24, Swansea, IL, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 360 months on each of two counts,[Read More…]

ROCKFORD, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Six men have been charged in similar but separate allleged fraud schemes involving the sports memorabilia business and the purchase and sale of equipment and uniforms used by professional and collegiate athletes. Today, in U.S. District Court, four defendants were charged in criminal informations and two defendants were[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a joint effort led by her office to double the number of sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE) in hospitals statewide. Madigan said the addition of SANE nurses is a critical step to encouraging more survivors to report their assaults and putting sexual[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- According to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment released by the National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC), approximately 1.4 million gang members belonging to more than 33,000 gangs were criminally active in the U.S. as of April, 2011. The assessment was developed through analysis of available federal, state, local,[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Criminal charges were filed last week against a Carol Stream man charged with the October 13, 2011 robbery of a Carol Stream, Illinois bank, announced Robert D. Grant, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Kevin Orr, Chief of[Read More…]