Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Dazhai Q. Brumfield, 20, has been sentenced to serve 78 months in federal prison for his role in a string of violent robberies committed in 2017 in Centralia, Illinois, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced Wednesday. Brumfield and a co-defendant,[Read More…]
Law and Order
Wanted Poster Yields Arrest: Park Forest Police Blotter Reports Through February 25, 2019
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- These police reports include arrests through February 25, 2019. Charges for those arrested include domestic battery, driving while license was suspended, obstructing identification, and driving on a revoked license. Also, a wanted poster created by an officer led to an arrest. Providing more details than readers will find in[Read More…]
Federal Jury Convicts Former Chicago Police Officer of Participating in Robbery and Extortion Crew
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A federal jury has convicted a former Chicago Police Department sergeant of participating in a robbery and extortion crew that targeted suspected drug dealers. The jury in U.S. District Court in Chicago on Monday convicted EDDIE C. HICKS, also known as “David Rose,” 70, on all eight counts[Read More…]
Forty-year Federal Prison Sentence for Serial Armed Robber
Indianapolis man had robbed over a dozen women Indianapolis, IN-(ENEWSPF)- United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced the sentencing of Kevin Ingram, 29, following his conviction in federal court for four armed robberies of Indianapolis area businesses. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt sentenced Ingram to 496 months (40½ years)[Read More…]
Madison Man Sentenced to 17 1/2 Years for Belleville Bank Robbery
Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Suntez Pasley, 46, of Madison, Illinois, has been sentenced to 210 months in prison for robbing the Regions Bank on West Main Street in Belleville, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced yesterday. Pasley pleaded guilty to the robbery back in[Read More…]
Pharmacy Tech. Charged with Theft: Police Reports Through Feb. 18, 2019
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- These police reports include arrests through February 18, 2019. Charges for those arrested include a DUI, possession of cannabis, and two incidences involving theft charges, one where the alleged offender turned herself in at the police station on an old warrant. Providing more details than readers will find in[Read More…]
Former Director of Operations of a Rockford Non-Profit Organization Pleads Guilty to Fraud
Rockford, IL-(ENEWSPF)- LEILANI HILLIS, 60, of Rockford, the former director of operations of a Rockford non-profit organization, pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to one count of mail fraud and one count of tax fraud. According to a written plea agreement, since 2001 Hillis was an[Read More…]
Federal Charges Allege Corruption Schemes by South Suburban Harvey Officials and Associates
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Six defendants have been charged as part of an ongoing federal investigation into corruption schemes allegedly carried out by city of Harvey officials or their associates. Among the defendants are two cousins with high-ranking relatives in Harvey government who allegedly extorted cash from a strip club owner, and[Read More…]
Chicago Man Convicted of Sex Trafficking a 16-Year-Old Girl
The Young Victim Was Allegedly Murdered by a Customer Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A federal jury today convicted a Chicago man on sex trafficking charges for arranging a commercial sex encounter for a 16-year-old girl that ended in the child’s murder in a south suburban garage. JOSEPH HAZLEY, 35, was convicted on[Read More…]
Police Respond to Online Criticism
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Park Forest Police defended their commitment “to protect all of our residents, including those who walk on all fours and beg at the dinner table,” after some made online criticisms that the women and men in blue were ignoring the plight of dogs left out in the[Read More…]
