Lake and McHenry County Scanner
Providing breaking news as it happens in Lake & McHenry Counties in Illinois
Police have arrested two men for drug and weapons charges after cocaine and a stolen gun was found during a search warrant in two homes in Lake County. On Friday at around 11:00 a.m. a search warrant was executed by…
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Two Good Samaritans helped save four people including a woman and her three kids from a car that drove into a retention pond during a storm Wednesday. First responders were called to the parking lot of Tacos El Norte near…
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A lawsuit has been filed against a trio of teenagers who police say are to blame for a Round Lake Beach cell phone robbery that turned deadly this past spring. 43-year-old North Chicago man Trinidad Javier Bueno Sanchez was killed…
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(SUN-TIMES) — A 43-year-old Chicago man was killed last week when he was dragged by a car driven by a 17-year-old girl at a north suburban Meijer parking lot, where he was supposed to sell a woman in the car…
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(SUN-TIMES) — A man was pinned underneath a pickup truck and died Thursday in north suburban Round Lake Beach, authorities said. Police were called about 4:20 p.m. to a report of a man in his mid-30s trapped under a truck in…
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(SUN-TIMES) — A man who faced felony charges after being shot at while trying to break into a north suburban home last year is back behind bars, but this time, according to authorities, he did the shooting. Erik G. Mota,…
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(SUN-TIMES) — A north suburban man was charged Monday with multiple felonies after punching someone in the head several times, barricading four people in a bedroom, and waving a machete at police while yelling for them to shoot him, police…
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