ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2016.  A Loves Park, Ill. man appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Iain D. Johnson on child pornography charges. GRANT WOJAHN, 35, of Loves Park, Ill., was indicted on Feb. 2, 2016, by a federal grand jury in Rockford and charged with one count of using a[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2016.  A Chicago man with a prior felony conviction has been indicted on federal gun charges for illegally dealing and possessing firearms. The indictment contends that LAZARO SALAS, 32, illegally dealt firearms from September 2013 to November 2015.  Salas allegedly purchased between 40 and 60 guns through[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–March 9, 2016.  A federal jury has convicted the director of nursing assistants at Passages Hospice for participating in a scheme to bill Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary hospice services. ANGELA ARMENTA, 35, of Wheeling, was convicted Tuesday night on three counts of health care fraud.  Each count is[Read More…]

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2016.   A Rockford-based company pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Iain D. Johnston to willfully violating Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations, resulting in the death of an employee at the company’s facility in South Beloit, Ill. BEHR IRON & STEEL INC., a high volume[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–March 4, 2016.  A federal jury today convicted an Oak Brook doctor of illegally receiving benefits in exchange for referring elderly patients to Sacred Heart Hospital on Chicago’s West Side. After a five-week trial, DR. VENKATESWARA R. “V.R.” KUCHIPUDI was convicted on one count of conspiracy to defraud the[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2016.  A federal grand jury sitting in Chicago, Illinois returned an indictment on Feb. 11 against a resident of a Chicago suburb, charging him with 10 counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of access device fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2016.  A Chicago Police officer was sentenced yeesterday to two years in federal prison for using excessive force against an employee of a Southeast Side convenience store. A store surveillance camera captured ALDO BROWN punching and kicking the clerk on Sept. 27, 2012.  BROWN had entered the[Read More…]

Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2016.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a former Grundy County official pleaded guilty to theft for stealing $42,000 in county funds to spend on personal shopping trips, meals at restaurants and visits to hair and nail salons. Renae Chronister, 47, of Morris, was sentenced earlier today[Read More…]

ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–March 1, 2016.  A McHenry, Ill. man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford on child pornography charges. MICHAEL L. CHAPARRO, 27, was charged with one count of transporting child pornography via the internet, and two counts of accessing child pornography that had crossed state lines,[Read More…]

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–February 29, 2016.  A California man was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for vandalizing a Grundy County fur farm and releasing more than 2,000 mink from their cages. After releasing the mink, KEVIN JOHNSON and an accomplice spray painted the barn with the words, “Liberation is[Read More…]