CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—August 4, 2014. A former west suburban Lyons police officer was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for illegally extorting more than $48,000 from targets of criminal investigations he was supposedly conducting during 2013. The defendant, JIMMY J. RODGERS, who was a 14-year veteran of the Lyons Police[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—August 1, 2014. A Grundy County gun dealer was indicted on federal firearms charges alleging that he illegally sold 11 firearms from either his store or his residence to an undercover law enforcement officer posing as a felon, as well as to a convicted felon who was cooperating with law[Read More…]

CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—August 1, 2014. A federal law enforcement officer was indicted on witness tampering charges for allegedly attempting to thwart an investigation of a sham marriage that she arranged a decade earlier. The defendant, ENKHCHIMEG ULZIIBAYAR EDWARDS, was charged with two counts of witness tampering in a federal grand jury[Read More…]

ROCKFORD–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2014. Thirteen Rockford area residents are facing federal gun and/or narcotics charges, federal and local law enforcement officials announced today. The indictments stem from a year-long investigation into firearms and cocaine trafficking in the Rockford area led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 31, 2014.  Six defendants are facing federal fraud charges involving separate schemes to obtain a total of more than $2.7 million through fraudulent statements in loan applications submitted to banks, mortgage lenders, several community colleges, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Small Business Administration since 2006. Five of[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Chicago man was sentenced to 55 years in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a young woman in back of an abandoned building in 2010, according to the Office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Derrick Alexander, 33, was previously convicted of Criminal Sexual Assault and[Read More…]

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Chicago man appeared in bond court Saturday facing charges alleging that he engaged in a series sex acts with a 12-year-old victim who he met at a Lowe’s home improvement store, according to the Office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Roy Burrell, 28, of the[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2014.  A registered nurse who operates a suburban health care provider that sends physicians to patients’ homes was arrested today on a federal health care fraud charge. The defendant, DIANA JOCELYN GUMILA, who manages Suburban Home Physicians, doing business as Doctor At Home, was charged with health care[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—July 21, 2014. Three Chicago men are facing federal prison sentences ranging from 20 to 51 months for their roles in a seven-year fraud scheme that caused client banks of their ATM servicing business to lose more than $1.7 million. The last of the three defendants was sentenced today while[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2014.  A high-ranking leader of the Latin Kings street gang was sentenced today to 35 years in federal prison after being convicted of racketeering conspiracy and related charges involving narcotics trafficking and violence that plagued the Little Village neighborhood on the city’s west side. The defendant, JUAN AMAYA,[Read More…]