Phoenix Peraza, age 5. (Photos: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) Update at 9:21 p.m. on 7-31-2010: Park Forest police say that Phoenix is safely in their custody. ENEWSPF spoke with two officers who credit our coverage with helping locate the boy. Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Park Forest Police confirm[Read More…]
Law and Order
Man Convicted in Attack on Off-Duty Police Officer
Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Eddie L. Mathis, Jr., 38, was found guilty yesterday of attempting to rob an off-duty Metropolitan Police Department officer and then shooting the officer in a December 2003 attack at a Washington, D.C. gas station, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today. The jury verdict followed a[Read More…]
Warrant Issued for Park Forest Woman In Connection With Abduction of 5-Year-Old Arizona Boy
Phoenix Peraza, age 5. (Photos: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) Update at 9:19 p.m. on 7-31-2010: Park Forest police say that Phoenix is safely in their custody. ENEWSPF spoke with two officers who credit our coverage with helping locate the boy. Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Police confirm that a[Read More…]
Chicago Man Convicted of Mailing Bomb Threat to Jewish School
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Mohammad Alkaramla, 26, of Chicago, was convicted last Tuesday of mailing a bomb threat to a Jewish school in Chicago in late 2008 after a two-day bench trial before Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer in U.S. District Court. Judge Pallmeyer revoked bond for Alkaramla and ordered him detained pending sentencing,[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Reports for July 26, 2010
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[Read More…]
Police: Man Enters Wrong House After Night of Drinking
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A 34-year-old man was arrested on July 23 and charged with criminal damage to property and criminal trespass to residence when police were dispatched to a residence in the 300 block of Sauk Trail to investigate a report of a subject who had broken a window and[Read More…]
‘Quick Change Bandit’ Sought by Chicago FBI
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is asking for the public’s help in identifying the individual depicted on the below wanted flyer. This individual, who is responsible for the armed robbery of at least three Chicago banks since[Read More…]
Marengo Contractor Convicted on Federal Fraud and Tax Charges
Rockford, IL–(ENEWSPF)– PATRICK J. FITZGERALD, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; ALVIN PATTON, Special Agent-In-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CID”); and ROBERT D. GRANT, Special Agent-In-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), today[Read More…]
FBI: Fugitive in LaGrange Murder Case Arrested
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A suspect wanted in connection with the January 2003 murder of a Florida man was arrested today in the southwest suburbs of Chicago announced Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Michael A. Holub, Chief of the LaGrange,[Read More…]
Cahokia Man Sentenced in Child Pornography Case
Springfield, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on July 16, 2010, KEVIN T. DUNIGAN, age 54, of Cahokia, Illinois, was sentenced in East St. Louis, Illinois. DUNIGAN had after previously plead guilty on April 12, 2010, to a two-count indictment[Read More…]
