INDIANAPOLIS-(ENEWSPF)- Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today that Kateen Morris, 44, of Fort Wayne, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in restitution to Hoosier taxpayers by U.S. District Judge William T. Lawrence following her guilty[Read More…]
Law and Order
FBI: Dolton Police Officer Arrested on Federal Civil Rights and Obstruction Charges Involving Alleged Use of Excessive Force
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A south suburban Dolton police officer was arrested today on federal civil rights and obstruction of justice charges alleging that he used excessive force against two victims in 2009 and later threatened Dolton’s then-police chief during the investigation, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendant, Kevin Fletcher,[Read More…]
Rockford Man Pleads Guilty to Bankruptcy Fraud
Rockford, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Rockford man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to bankruptcy fraud. The defendant, Shane Mathew Berry, 39, admitted to making a false statement in documents he signed under penalty of perjury in his 2007 bankruptcy petition filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Rockford. In a[Read More…]
Belvidere Man Pleads Guilty to Robbery of Harris Bank in Belvidere
Rockford, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Belvidere man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to bank robbery. The defendant, Carlos Harris, 39, of Belvidere, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to the robbery of Harris N.A., 401 Southtowne Drive, Belvidere, Illinois, on Mar. 26, 2011. According to the written plea[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Reports for October 31, 2011
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…]
UPDATED: Man Robbed Outside Home On Winnebago Street
Please note the update from the PFPD at the end of this story. Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Police say a resident who lives in the 300 block of Winnebago Street was the victim of an aggravated armed robbery on October 21. Police say the resident told them he arrived at his[Read More…]
Police: Man Robbed at Gunpoint on Sauk Trail
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Police say a man was robbed at gunpoint while walking his pit bull dog in the 200 block of Sauk Trail on October 23. Police were dispatched to investigate an armed robbery at approximately 7:45 PM. The victim told them that, at approximately 7:30 PM, he was[Read More…]
Developer Guilty of Fraud in the Development of the East St. Louis Bowman Estates Project
Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Clayton developer pled guilty in U.S. District Court on October 27, 2011, for his role in the failed Bowman Estates construction project, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Harold Rosen, age 80, was indicted by a federal grand[Read More…]
Chicago Police Deployment Scheme Results in Inequitable, Unfair Service for Minority Neighborhoods, Suit Says
Learn More Read the complaint (PDF) Read Legal Director Harvey Grossman’s op-ed for the Chicago Sun-Times Sound off about police deployment in your neighborhood CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011. Chicago officials have failed to deploy police equitably across the City’s many diverse neighborhoods, resulting in disproportionate numbers of delayed police responses[Read More…]
Hogsett Announces Indictment of Four Terre Haute Defendants in ‘Sons of Silence’ Investigation
TERRE HAUTE—(ENEWSPF)- Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney, announced this afternoon the indictment of four additional individuals in United States District Court in Terre Haute for their alleged roles in the criminal operations of the Sons of Silence motorcycle gang. “Working together with our federal and local law enforcement partners,[Read More…]
