Blog Posts in 2012
Posted on May 12, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Thanks to the quick efforts of two police departments, a little boy with a serious heart problem was found in Chicago, Illinois. His own father kidnapped him, for reasons unknown, and absconded with ...
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Posted on May 5, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Chicago police caught a man last week that is believed to have molested at least one of his own children. The 400-pound man was discovered hiding out in an apartment complex and detained on multiple ...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
A man will have to spend several years behind bars for the accident that took the life of a young woman last year. The defendant, 42-year-old A.L., was given nine years in prison for the DUI accident ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Police are investigating a car accident that took the life of one person and injured several more in Brighton Park, Illinois. So far, one man has been arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter. ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
In order to tackle gang activity in Chicago, Illinois, area police have been working overtime conducting covert operations. Two street gangs were targeted last week, leading to the arrest of 45 people ...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
The west side of Chicago has gained a notorious reputation over the past few decades. Recently, police targeted a specific area of the west side and were successful in detaining twelve people for a ...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
It is rare to remove a judge from a bench on short notice. However, that is exactly what happened in Cook County, Illinois earlier this month. The judge in question is set to undergo a medical ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
In the state of Illinois, news sources say that a local politician is facing criminal charges. Allegedly, a state representative was caught accepting a large cash bribe, which is a white collar ...
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Posted on Mar 16, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Although the incident had been placed into a cold-case file, Chicago police are now actively working on a lead for a 1996 murder . Reports indicate that the suspect has been located in Los Angeles, ...
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Posted on Mar 9, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
The case involving singer Jennifer Hudson's family is still ongoing despite happening several years ago. Hudson's family was found murdered in their home in the south side of Chicago in 2008. ...
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Posted on Mar 2, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Several news sources have reported that Mike Ditka's son had his felony DUI charges dismissed last week in Illinois. Michael P. Ditka was arrested last April when police found him behind the wheel ...
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Posted on Feb 24, 2012 By Chicago Criminal Defense Lawyer
Local authorities worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to capture the man believed to be responsible for robbing ten banks in Chicago, Illinois. The young man was detained outside his ...
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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, ...
Continue reading "Online Video Leads Officers to Suspects Involved in Violent Beating" »
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 ...
Continue reading "Father Arrested for Abuse after Posting Pictures of Daughter Online" »