Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A federal judge has sentenced a 30-year employee of a McHenry County manufacturing firm to a year and a day in federal prison for stealing trade secret information while planning to work for a rival company in China. ROBERT O’ROURKE, 59, of Lake Geneva, Wisc., was convicted earlier[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Rockford man was sentenced on October 4, 2019, by U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey on a federal drug conspiracy charge. TYSHON T. WATSON (also known as “TY”), 24, was sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Three men have been arrested in connection with a bank robbery in Elmwood Park.  Law enforcement is also investigating whether the trio committed other recent bank robberies in Chicago and nearby suburbs. ANDRES ADAME, 34, of Melrose Park, AARON FLORES, 21, of Chicago, and MANUEL MARTINEZ, 23, of[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Rockford man was sentenced today to four years in federal prison on one count of armed bank robbery and one count of bank robbery.  DEMONTRION PHILLIPS, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this year to the armed robbery of Alpine Bank, 2642 Charles St. in Rockford, on July 17, 2017, and[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Federal law enforcement seized more than 14 kilograms of cocaine and 15 firearms as part of an investigation that dismantled a Texas-to-Chicago narcotics pipeline and resulted in charges against ten defendants. During the investigation, dubbed “Operation Grapevine,” authorities shut down a drug stash house in a lakefront condominium[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- An Indiana man and his niece have been indicted on federal kidnapping and domestic violence charges for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting the man’s former girlfriend. ROBERT SPEED and his niece, SHIRLEY SPEED, allegedly held the victim against her will and repeatedly assaulted her with various dangerous weapons from[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Chicago man has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for recruiting minors on Facebook to participate in sex acts with him and others. BRYAN OSBORNE, 30, posed as a woman on Facebook to send thousands of messages to intended victims, most of them minors.  Osborne[Read More…]

For Hobbs Act Robbery, Felon on Possession of a Firearm, and Brandishing a Firearm during and in Relation to a Crime of Violence South Bend, IN-(ENEWSPF)- Donyea Fowler, age 34, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for six counts of Hobbs[Read More…]

For Production of Child Pornography and Making a Destructive Device South Bend, IN-(ENEWSPF)- Eric R. Weiler, 46, of LaPorte, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio after entering a plea of guilty to production of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and making a destructive device,[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Chicago man has been arrested on federal criminal charges for allegedly threatening to commit violence at a women’s reproductive health clinic. FARHAN SHEIKH, 19, is charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce.  Sheikh was arrested Friday night and made an initial court appearance this morning before[Read More…]