Lake and McHenry County Scanner
Providing breaking news as it happens in Lake & McHenry Counties in Illinois
Libertyville police arrested a Waukegan man who had a loaded gun in his car and no FOID card during a traffic stop early Monday morning. Montrael D. Thomas, 33, of 1429 Glen Rock Avenue in Waukegan, was charged with aggravated unlawful…
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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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A Libertyville man and an Algonquin man have been arrested following a drug deal gone bad in which one of them pulled a gun. Gian-Marco Guerrero, 19, of 131 West Ellis Avenue in Libertyville, is being charged with aggravated assault…
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A 13-year-old Wheeling boy has been charged in connection with burglarizing a Libertyville gun store after a stolen pickup truck crashed into it in 2016, police said. On August 23, 2016, police responded to a burglary at Just Trap Guns,…
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A Lake Zurich gymnastics coach has been arrested on sexual assault charges of a 16-year-old Mundelein girl, police said. Kendale Coats, 29, of Palatine, was arrested and charged with two counts of criminal sexual assault. Coats is a gymnastics coach…
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Thirty chickens and several alpacas died after a barn fire in Mettawa on Tuesday, the Libertyville Fire Department said. Firefighters were called at 1:12 p.m. to a barn fire at a farm property at 14060 West Old School Road near…
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A drunken domestic dispute led to the arrests of a boyfriend and girlfriend in Libertyville on Sunday. A Libertyville police officer spotted a vehicle driving on North Milwaukee Avenue at 2:40 a.m. with its passenger side door open and a…
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