Criminal Defense Blog
Posted on Feb 17, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
One man tried desperately to escape U.S. Marshals that were trying to arrest him. He jumped out of a third-story window and instead of making a quick get-away, he was transported to a Chicago hospital ...
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Posted on Feb 10, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Fellow classmates at a Connecticut University recently learned that a student was being charged with child pornography. The former football player and Chicago native was found to have dozens of ...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Chicago's head of police is trying to mitigate the press surrounding a very brutal and public beating that took place earlier this month. He claims that although the attack was undeniably brutal, ...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Now that synthetic marijuana is illegal in the state of Illinois, the sale of it is also a crime. Two men learned that the hard way when they were arrested for possessing over $1 million worth of fake ...
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Posted on Jan 20, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
In the state of Illinois, news sources report that two teenagers stole hundreds of dollars worth of clothes from a local retailer. However, they did not make it past the parking lot before store ...
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Posted on Jan 13, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Two long-time football rivals played each other last Sunday in Wisconsin. Tensions were so high that when the game finally ended, twenty people had been arrested for causing fights. The game between ...
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Posted on Jan 6, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
A community is outraged over the horrible actions of a father against his baby girl. The man was arrested last week on multiple charges of violent crimes . It is unknown why exactly the 21-year-old ...
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Posted on Dec 30, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
A case in Chicago, Illinois has the local community up in arms about the death of a young woman. People are now blaming the police department for her death. Three months ago police arrested the ...
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Posted on Dec 23, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
It took Chicago police over one year to pin charges onto the man thought to have murdered another man in the city. The 24-year-old suspect now faces multiple charges that could land him decades behind ...
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Posted on Dec 16, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Police in Iowa caught a man that was wanted on multiple charges in Illinois last week. While it is uncertain why police first became interested in the 32-year-old Chicago man, it is known that he was ...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Police finally caught up with the man believed to be responsible for shooting and killing a 48-year-old woman. Last week the man, a housekeeping employee at a hospital in Chicago, Illinois, entered ...
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Posted on Dec 2, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Some criminals are apprehended immediately. For others, it takes years for the justice system to catch up with them. Such is the case for a 67-year-old man arrested last week in Chicago, Illinois on ...
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Posted on Nov 25, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Even though New York City is constantly battling threats of terrorism and other serious crimes, state officials are still concerned with marijuana. According to recent statistics, the business of ...
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Posted on Nov 18, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
News sources report that a young man thought he could avoid arrest by escaping to the Midwest. Last week a young man from Cape Coral, Florida became the number one suspect in the disappearance of his ...
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Posted on Nov 15, 2011 By Admin
A 17-year-old girl was standing at a West Side bus stop Monday morning when a man inside a purple van allegedly abducted her and later held her inside a garage, law enforcement said. The van ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Although it took several weeks to gather enough evidence to bring him in, a man now faces multiple charges associated with the robbery of a bank in October. News sources report that the Federal Bureau ...
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Posted on Nov 10, 2011 By Admin
A Chicago man on parole for an attempted murder conviction beat an elderly nurse to death in her Bridgeport garage, stole her wedding and engagement rings and used them to propose to his girlfriend, ...
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Posted on Nov 8, 2011 By Admin
A Chicago cab driver tried to hire a hit man to kill someone who owed him money. He wanted the 38-year-old target dead because he still owed $26,000 that he had paid to bail the victim out of jail on ...
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Posted on Nov 7, 2011 By Admin
A 24 year old woman was charged with shooting an ex-roommate in Zion after an argument broke out between them over a previous theft at their home, officers said today. The shooting happened Sunday at ...
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Posted on Nov 4, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
What has officers laughing in Chicago is actually a serious crime. One woman was arrested last week in the South Side for physically assaulting her husband. In addition to throwing punches and ...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2011 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
One man thought he could escape charges of possession by swallowing drugs during his arrest. This did not work well for him, as he choked on the drugs and died. According to the medical examiner on ...
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Posted on Oct 27, 2011 By Admin
A Chicago physician who offered to trade prescription drugs on Craigslist was charged with handing out Xanax , Oxycontin drugs in exchange for sex , law enforcement said today. Pediatric neurologist ...
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Posted on Oct 26, 2011 By Admin
Law enforcement were questioning a person of interest after a woman and a girl were found stabbed to death at a Skokie home this afternoon, officers said. Skokie officers and firefighters were ...
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Posted on Oct 25, 2011 By Admin
Chicago law enforcement says a dispute early Sunday in a Bridgeport street ended when one man stabbed another, killing him. An 18yr old man has been charged with first-degree murder and was set to ...
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Posted on Oct 25, 2011 By Admin
A certified nurse's assistant has been charged with sexually assaulting a disabled elderly woman at a Crystal Lake nursing home. The 22 year old man of Woodstock, was charged with felony criminal ...
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