Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Carey L. Breshers, 52, of Oklahoma, was sentenced on February 6, 2012, to 293 months’ imprisonment on each of two counts of kidnapping, and 240 months’ imprisonment for interference with commerce by robbery, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, the United States[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Chicago man, who personally provided hundreds of dollars to an alleged terrorist leader with whom he had met in his native Pakistan, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide additional funds to the same individual after learning he was working with al Qaeda. The defendant, Raja Lahrasib Khan,[Read More…]

Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Mary S. Becker, 57, of Jerseyville, IL, was sentenced in federal court, today, for bank fraud, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced. Becker received a sentence of 63 months in prison, a $100 special assessment, five years’ supervised release, and mandatory[Read More…]

Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that David R. Childers, 38, of West Frankfort, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton today to a term of 24 months’ imprisonment for his role in receiving fraudulent refunds from[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A resident told police that, while walking northbound on Western Avenue at Dogwood Street, he was approached by two individuals who robbed him after striking him in the head with a glass bottle, punching and kicking him. One of the suspects is described as a white male,[Read More…]

Companies Agree to Pay a Total of $548 Million in Criminal Fines–Includes Second Largest Criminal Fine Ever for an Antitrust Violation; Executives Agree to Serve Prison Time WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—January 30, 2012. Two Japanese suppliers of automotive electrical components–Yazaki Corporation and DENSO Corporation–have agreed to plead guilty and to pay a total[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 30, 2012. A federal jury today convicted Alex Campbell, 45, a northwest Chicago suburban massage parlor owner, of various federal crimes including sex-trafficking, forced labor, harboring illegal aliens, confiscating passports to further forced labor and extortion involving four foreign women whom he mentally and physically abused while forcing them[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…]