CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 21, 2010. An investigation by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Human Trafficking Initiative has resulted in criminal charges against a Chicago man who allegedly forced his girlfriend to prostitute herself for his financial benefit and allegedly repeatedly beat and threatened her when she refused, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita[Read More…]

Michael Nelson, 18. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Cook County, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Bond has been set at $250,000 for a Ford Heights man arrested after robbing a liquor store at gunpoint, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced Monday. Michael Nelson, 18, of the 1500 block of Senator Lane, has been charged with armed[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…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Three defendants facing federal narcotics charges in Chicago arrived here yesterday after being extradited from Mexico, federal law enforcement officials announced. All three were arrested in Mexico in May 2006 during a Mexican law enforcement raid on a laboratory in Toluca, Mexico, where synthetic fentanyl allegedly was being[Read More…]

A gunman enters a Florida school board meeting, spray paints a wall and rants before going on a shooting spree. Spray-painting a "V" for "Vendetta" on the wall of the board room, the gunman, Clay Duke, permits women to leave before talking to the six remaining men on the board.[Read More…]

Michigan–(ENEWSPF)– United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today that Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka, a 47-year-old native of Syria, was sentenced today in federal court in Detroit to 12 months and a day in prison, following his guilty plea on October 14, 2010 to Making False Statements Under Oath in[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A former chemist for a northwest suburban paint manufacturing company was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for stealing trade secrets involving numerous formulas and other proprietary information valued up to $20 million as he prepared to go to work for an overseas competitor. David Yen Lee,[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)–A former Hoffman Estates man was sentenced yesterday to 27 years in federal prison for manufacturing, transporting, and possessing child pornography, the FBI reports. The defendant, Donald R. Peppers, 36, pled guilty in August, admitting that he had produced a video of himself sexually molesting a 1-year-old minor knowing[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A Chicago-based residential property development company owner, Seth Harris, was sentenced Tuesday to 60 months in federal prison for defrauding the State Bank of Countryside in connection with loans for the development of property in the West Lincoln Park neighborhood in Chicago, the FBI reports. Harris, 38, of[Read More…]