Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The principal owner and six top executives and employees of a former general contractor, together with two former employees of client companies, were indicted for allegedly engaging in a fraudulent billing and kickback scheme. The seven defendants affiliated with the former contractor, Krahl Construction, allegedly caused losses of[Read More…]

Rock Island, IL-(ENEWSPF)- U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced a Bettendorf, Iowa, man, Don Lawrence Asheim, to serve 30 months (two and a half years) in federal prison for providing false information related to a terrorist hoax in Moline in April 2010. Asheim, 60, of the 2500 block[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Two former road test examiners for the Illinois Secretary of State were indicted for allegedly accepting cash bribes to pass customers who were unqualified or never took the road test, federal law enforcement officials announced November 14. The charges stem from an investigation that was unveiled in 2009[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…]

Largest buck valued at $25,000 Springfield, IL –(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2011.  The Illinois Department of Natural Resources Office of Law Enforcement announced recent charges filed in Cook and Sangamon Counties against five men from Illinois and Michigan. The arrests came after a five month long deer poaching investigation. Illinois DNR Conservation[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2011.  A Riverton, Ill., man has been convicted for production and possession of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney James A. Lewis for the Central District of Illinois.  Jeffrey Price, 47, was convicted late Friday, Nov.[Read More…]

24-Year-Old Allegedly Trading 600+ Videos, Images Online Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced on November 2 that the arrest of a La Salle County man on child pornography charges marks the 27th arrest in “Operation Glass House,” her continuing crackdown on the most active traffickers downloading and trading child[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced the on November 1 the arrest of a youth minister in Marengo, Ill., on charges of soliciting a child and other sex-related charges. Investigators with the Attorney General’s office arrested Barry Caudle, 39, this morning while executing a warrant at the Marengo First[Read More…]

INDIANAPOLIS—Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney, announced that Damon L. Thomas, age 37, formerly of Indianapolis, and Tara L. Wilson, age 38, formerly of Muncie, have been charged with theft of government property. This follows an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Housing and Urban[Read More…]

SPRINGFIELD, IL—Jacklyn Still, formerly Jacklyn Gebhardt, the owner of Gebhardt Trailer Sales, of Jacksonville, Ill., was sentenced today to serve nine years in federal prison and to pay restitution in the amount of $4,549,610 to banks and customers she defrauded. Still, 49, has been in the custody of the U.S.[Read More…]