Lake and McHenry County Scanner
Providing breaking news as it happens in Lake & McHenry Counties in Illinois
The Zion Police Department announced on Tuesday that they arrested a Kenosha man in connection with the fatal hit-and-run on Green Bay Road in October 2017. Dennis C. Russell Jr., 34, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, was charged with failure to report…
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The Cary Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding the driver who hit a 72-year-old woman in a grocery store parking lot over the weekend and then fled the scene. Emergency crews responded at 4 p.m. on…
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A 50-year-old Gurnee man is in critical condition after a semi-truck struck his broken down car on the side of the road in unincorporated Libertyville. Emergency crews responded at 10:40 a.m. on Monday to Route 137 & North Center Avenue…
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Officials confirmed that the missing Round Lake Park man was the one found dead after he crashed his car into a tree in unincorporated Mundelein. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Grayslake Fire Department and Countryside Fire Protection District were called…
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A gold 2010 Toyota Prius, matching the description of the missing Round Lake Park man, was found in Mundelein crashed into a tree with a deceased man in the driver’s seat. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Grayslake Fire Department and…
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An 87-year-old Beach Park man has been arrested after police said he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old girl. Edmundo Aboytes, 87, of the 9900 block of Oak Forest Avenue in Beach Park, was arrested on Thursday and charged with two counts…
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A wanted felon is in custody after hitting a Waukegan police car and running from police officers before being bitten by a police canine. Jacob T. Powell, 29, of the 3000 block of Belvidere Road in Waukegan, was wanted for unlawful…
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