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…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A Serbian national living in Chicago’s north suburbs was arrested yesterday on charges he attempted to purchase a device commonly used for ATM skimming, announced Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). LOUIS SOKOLOVIC, also known as Ljubisa Sokolovic,[Read More…]

Washington DC–(ENEWSPF)– A federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York has returned a 10-count indictment charging Faisal Shahzad for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1, 2010, the Justice Department announced today. Shahzad, 30, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in[Read More…]

Boston, MA–(ENEWSPF)– A former Brookline man who served at the First Spiritual Temple as a minister, teacher, counselor, and “medium” was indicted today in federal court on child pornography charges. United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Boston[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The Justice Department today announced that Benjamin Haskell, 23, of Springfield, Mass., pleaded guilty to a superseding information charging him with two crimes related to the burning of the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, a predominantly African-American church, in Springfield on the morning after President Barack Obama[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Lee Bentley Farkas, the former chairman of a private mortgage lending company, Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW), was arrested last night in Ocala, Fla., and charged in a 16-count indictment in connection with his alleged role in a more than $1.9 billion fraud scheme that contributed to the[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Eight known or suspected members of the Gangster Disciples street gang were arrested early yesterday, culminating a nearly three-year investigation into drug trafficking in and around the Cabrini-Green housing project on Chicago’s near north side, announced Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal[Read More…]

Rockford, IL–(ENEWSPF)– PATRICK J. FITZGERALD, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; ROBERT D. GRANT, Special Agent-In-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; RONALD K. LUKASIK, Chief of the Fox River Grove Police Department; and EDWARD FETZER, Chief of the Cary Police Department, today[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A criminal complaint was filed late last week in U.S. District Court in Chicago charging a Crystal Lake man with the attempted robbery of the Wauconda Community Bank, located at 495 West Liberty Street, on February 9. The alleged perpetrator, identified as ROBERT M. McINTYRE, age 57, of[Read More…]

Tucson, AZ–(ENEWSPF)– A federal grand jury in Tucson returned a one count indictment against Justin M. Hayes, 31, of Phoenix, for a violation of threatening to assault, kidnap, and murder officials or employees of the United States. “This office takes threats against any individual, including public officials, with the utmost[Read More…]