Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Parkway Bank and Trust, located at 1600 N. Roselle Road in Schaumburg, was robbed Monday evening of an undisclosed amount of cash. The robber was described as a white male, 20-30 years of age, 5’10" – 6’0" tall, thin build. He was wearing a dark baseball hat,[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Six south suburban men were charged with operating a drug distribution network which purchased and re-sold wholesale and retail quantities of cocaine and crack cocaine in and around the Village of Robbins, announced Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Robert D. Grant, Special[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—November 24, 2010. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) has temporarily suspended the veterinarian and controlled substance licenses of Dr. Gary Friederich, owner of the Park Forest Animal Hospital, 2348 Western Ave., Park Forest. According to the IDFPR twenty-one count complaint, Dr. Friederich allegedly issued[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2010.  The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is using its emergency scheduling authority to temporarily control five chemicals (JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-200, CP-47,497, and cannabicyclohexanol) used to make “fake pot” products.  Except as authorized by law, this action will make possessing and selling these chemicals or[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2010.  Murder charges have been filed against the estranged husband of a south suburban woman who was shot multiple times and found dead in the trunk of her car in 2009, just days before the victim was to have finalized divorce proceedings against the defendant, Cook County State’s[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2010.  A Chicago area orthodontist appeared in bond court yesterday to face charges for inappropriately touching a 13-year-old female patient during a routine office visit earlier this summer, according to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Dr. Ernest Panos, 80, of Harwood Heights, was charged[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Today, the FBI released 2009 statistics which indicated that 6,604 criminal incidents involving 7,789 offenses were reported as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability. Hate Crime Statistics, 2009, published by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, includes[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2010.  Following a joint investigation by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Chicago Police Department, with assistance from major retailers, two suburban men have been charged with operating a multi-million dollar criminal enterprise out of their north side distribution warehouse, purchasing and reselling stolen merchandise for[Read More…]

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…]

Oklahoma City–(ENEWSPF)– Today, ERIC JOSEPH SCHWARTZ, 50, of North Hollywood, California, was sentenced by United States District Judge Tim Leonard to serve 168 months in federal prison for attempting to entice an 8-year-old girl into sexual activity, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.[Read More…]