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 local media. An arrest does not mean that[Read More…]
Law and Order
Park Forest Man Charged With Unlawful Restraint and Kidnapping, 2 Class X Felonies
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Park Forest police saved a woman from what must have been a terrifying ordeal in early February. And it all allegedly happened in town. A Park Forest man was charged with unlawful restraint and kidnapping, both Class X felonies, after police responded to a call that a[Read More…]
Community Alert: Police Investigating String Of Robberies Along Western Avenue
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Park Forest Police Department is actively investigating three separate incidents that occurred between January 30 and February 9, 2016 where a lone female resident of a multi-family housing area on the Western Avenue corridor was robbed or attempted to be robbed outside of their residence by two[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Announces Multistate Settlement with MoneyGram
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—February 11, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a settlement with Dallas-based MoneyGram Payment Systems Inc. resolving a multistate investigation that focused on complaints from consumers who used MoneyGram’s wire transfer service to send money to third parties involved in schemes to defraud consumers. Madigan’s office was one[Read More…]
Fourth Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to ISIL
Five Co-Defendants Expected to Go to Trial in May 2016 MINNESOTA–(ENEWSPF)–February 11, 2016. Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, 20, of Egan, Minnesota, pleaded guilty today to an information charging him with conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. The[Read More…]
California Man Arrested, Charged for Adult Adoption Scheme to Defraud Undocumented Immigrants
Americans Helping America Chamber of Commerce Promised Citizenship to Members of Its “Migration Program” for a Price CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–February 11, 2016. Helaman Hansen, 63, of Elk Grove, California, was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned a 13-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud,[Read More…]
Federal Jury Convicts Milwaukee Man of Transporting a Minor to Illinois from Wisconsin to Engage in Prostitution
CHICAGO — (ENEWSPF)–February 11, 2016. A Milwaukee man was convicted in federal court today of transporting an underage girl to the Chicago area from Wisconsin to engage in prostitution. DAJUAN KEY, 32, brought the girl to the Chicago area from Madison, Wisc., in September 2013. At the time, the victim[Read More…]
Chicago Woman Arrested on Federal Weapons Charges for Giving a Loaded Gun to a Minor for Use in a Murder
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–February 11, 2016. A federal indictment unsealed today charges a Chicago woman with giving a loaded .38 Special revolver to a minor, knowing that the minor would use it to commit a violent crime. VANDETTA REDWOOD, 34, is charged with one count of transferring a firearm to a[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Announces Charges Against Counterfeit Ticket Ring
Attorney General Charges 16 Defendants in Fake Ticket Scheme for Games & Events at Soldier Field, United Center & Allstate Arena Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—February 11, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced charges against 16 defendants for a wide-ranging counterfeit ticket scheme for games, events and concerts at Chicago’s Soldier Field and[Read More…]
Morgan Stanley Agrees to Pay $2.6 Billion Penalty in Connection with Its Sale of Residential Mortgage Backed Securities
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 11, 2016. The Justice Department today announced that Morgan Stanley will pay a $2.6 billion penalty to resolve claims related to Morgan Stanley’s marketing, sale and issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). This settlement constitutes the largest component of the set of resolutions with Morgan Stanley entered by[Read More…]
