CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2014.  A Chicago man was sentenced today to more than two years in federal prison for mailing more than 90 threatening and/or harassing letters to Chicago police officers, other government and law enforcement officials, private individuals, schools, and religious institutions in the Chicago area between November 2003 and[Read More…]

More than 30 ducks taken out of season March 6 VANDALIA–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2014.  Illinois Conservation Police (CPO’s) have arrested three men in connection with a March duck poaching incident at Carlyle Lake Wildlife Management Area near Vandalia.  Steven Dean of Granite City, along with Bradley Peters and Daniel Groves of[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014.  A former Crest Hill man was sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison for illegally trafficking and possessing five firearms that his sister illegally bought in Missouri and shipped to him in Illinois. The defendant, RICHARD CARRINO, a previously convicted felon who was barred from[Read More…]

Springfield—(ENEWSPF)—April 29, 2014. A Springfield man is in custody on $200,000 bond after being charged with multiple counts of disseminating child pornography as part of Operation Glass House, a statewide initiative Attorney General Lisa Madigan launched to apprehend the most active offenders who download and trade child pornography online. Terry[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2014.  Former Illinois State Rep. KEITH FARNHAM was charged today with possession of child pornography in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Farnham allegedly possessed two videos depicting child pornography on a computer that was seized from his state office in Elgin in March.[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2014.  The federal government and more than 200 public school districts in 19 states, including Illinois, were defrauded of more than $33 million by two Niles–based companies and two of their executives, who purported to provide government-funded tutoring services to low-income students, according to a federal indictment announced[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014.  A longtime member of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang who managed a heroin distribution spot between 2008 and 2010 at the corner of North St. Louis Avenue and West Ohio Street on the city’s west side was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison, federal law[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2014.  A west suburban investment advisor was indicted on federal charges alleging that he fraudulently obtained approximately $2.9 million from at least 10 investors and misused the funds in a Ponzi-type scheme. The defendant, JOSEPH HENNESSY, co-owned and co-operated the now-defunct Resource Planning Group, Inc., formerly a registered[Read More…]

ROCKFORD–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2014.  A Freeport, Ill. man was sentenced yesterday in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala on a federal charge relating to his preparation of fraudulent federal income tax returns.  The defendant, JASON BOOTH, 32, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison, to be followed[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2014.  Three Chicago men are facing federal charges for their alleged roles in a series of armed robberies of various retail businesses in Chicago and several suburbs late last year and early this year, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The indictments charge nine armed robberies and an[Read More…]