Five People Charged with Forced Labor Conspiracy Involving Trafficking of Victims from Georgia to Work on Wisconsin Farms

United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that five people were indicted for conspiracy to commit forced labor, labor trafficking, and five additional labor-related offenses. The defendants are alleged to have trafficked the victims from Georgia to Wisconsin to work on farms located in the Eastern District of […]

Vera Sauchanka

05/22/2019

Portage Woman Sentenced To 15 YEARS In Prison For Producing Child Pornography

May 16, 2019 – Rachel Marie Burrell, 30, of Portage, Michigan, was sentenced for sexual exploitation of a child, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. Burrell was sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release and was ordered to pay fines and other monetary penalties. Burrell took sexually explicit pictures of […]

Vera Sauchanka

05/16/2019

Man shot to death after burglary in Gage Park, Chicago

A man was found shot to death after a burglary Tuesday night in the Gage Park neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Officers responded to a call of a burglary in progress and found a male, whose age was unknown, lying in a yard with a gunshot wound to the neck at 10:17 p.m. in the […]

Vera Sauchanka

07/11/2018

2 Officers Die In Police Station Parking Lot, Two Days Apart

Chicago Police are mourning the loss of an officer that unexpectedly died in her squad car. Fellow officers paid their respects while a procession took the body to the medical examiner’s office. The officer was assigned to the female lock-up in the 5th district.
CPD says she passed out in the station parking lot before she […]

Vera Sauchanka

05/21/2019

2 drivers carjacked at gunpoint on Near West Side, police say

Armed carjackers stole at least two cars on the Near West Side this month, police said. The attacks happened about 6:50 p.m. July 3 in the 700 block of West Fulton Market, and shortly after midnight July 8 in the 800 block of West Adams Street. In one incident, Chicago police said, a valet driver […]

Vera Sauchanka

05/21/2019

2 bodies found in North Side garage

Two bodies were found in a garage on the city’s North Side Tuesday, according to officials. Police were called to a garage in the 4100 block of North Mozart Street in the Albany Park neighborhood around 4 p.m. Tuesday. Police said a man and a woman, both believed to be in their 30s, were found […]

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05/21/2019

2 dead, 4 wounded in city shootings

Two people were killed and four others were wounded in city shootings Tuesday and early Wednesday, Chicago police said. A 24-year-old man was shot twice in the chest and twice in the arm around 11:55 p.m. Tuesday when someone in a four-door dark vehicle fired shots at him in the 1700 block of West 85th […]

Vera Sauchanka

05/21/2019

Chief Financial Officer of Local Business Indicted for Embezzling 3.8 Million Dollars

Bryan Vonderahe, 45, of Kirkwood, Missouri, was charged on Thursday, May 16, in a federal indictment for three counts of Wire Fraud.  He appeared this morning in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia Cohen. The indictment charging Bryan Vonderahe alleges that beginning during January, 2012 and continuing through January, 2019, Vonderahe schemed to defraud a […]

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05/21/2019

Guilty Plea: Overland Park Man Had 44,000 Images of Child Porn

May 17, 2019 – An Overland Park man today admitted he collected more than 44,000 images of child porn, some of which were shared with other computer users, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. Robert A. Weick, 32, Overland Park, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of distributing child pornography. Weick came under investigation when a […]

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05/17/2019

Metro East Woman Sentenced for Falsifying Records in Bankruptcy

May 17, 2019 – Dehavalon R. Cook, 46, of Fairview Heights, Illinois, has been sentenced to three years probation for falsifying records in a bankruptcy proceeding, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today. Cook previously pleaded guilty to the charge on January 29, 2019. Court documents show […]

Vera Sauchanka

05/17/2019