Springfield, MO–(ENEWSPF)– Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced September 23 that an Aurora, Missouri, woman who was indicted by a federal grand jury for counterfeit checks and mail fraud related to a scheme to embezzle $252,848 from her employer made her first appearance in[Read More…]

Columbia, SC–(ENEWSPF)– United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that David Jackson, age 28, of Augusta, pled guilty in federal court for the June 6, 2007 robbery of the Regions Bank in North Augusta, South Carolina. United States District Court Judge Margaret B. Seymour took the guilty plea and will sentence[Read More…]

Orlando, FL–(ENEWSPF)– U.S. Attorney A. Brian Albritton announces that U.S. District Judge John Antoon II on Friday sentenced Justin Edward Halbsgut (age 23, of Daytona Beach) to 42 months in federal prison for possessing child pornography. The court also ordered Halbsgut to forfeit his computers and hard drives that had[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A 22-year-old Chicago man was arrested early Sunday morning, September 19, immediately after placing a backpack which he thought contained an explosive device into a curbside trash receptacle near a crowded North Side street corner, announced Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– During the second quarter of 2010, there were 1,146 reported violations of the Federal Bank Robbery and Incidental Crimes Statute, a decrease from the 1,304 reported violations in the same quarter of 2009.1 According to statistics released today by the FBI, there were 1,135 robberies, 11 burglaries, zero larcenies,[Read More…]

Indianapolis, IN–(ENEWSPF)– Three inmates of the Federal Correctional Complex – Terre Haute were sentenced September 21 by U.S. District Judge William T. Lawrence in separate cases for possession of contraband while in prison, the FBI reports. Edward C. Crow, 30, was sentenced to 30 months; Keister A. Gallman, 30, was[Read More…]

Waukegan, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced Thursday her continuing statewide crackdown on child pornography resulted in the arrest of a Lake County man purported to be one of the leading child pornography offenders in the county. The arrest of Allen Ayen, 62, is the fifth since Madigan began a[Read More…]

The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Wendy Heise) 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…]

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…]