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  • 1 week ago | shawlocal.com | Bob Rakow

    Five Venezuelan migrants face multiple charges for allegedly stealing merchandise from two Oak Brook stores in two unrelated incidents, prosecutors said. The offenders, all male juveniles residing in Chicago, appeared at detention hearings Tuesday where three were ordered detained, according to a DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office news release. All five juveniles are charged with one count of burglary.

  • 1 week ago | shawlocal.com | Bob Rakow

    Downers Grove and Woodridge police are investigating several commercial burglaries that occurred in both communities in the early morning hours Sunday, authorities said. About 4:57 a.m., Woodridge police responded to a commercial burglar alarm at 1001 W. 75th St. Responding officers located several businesses that had been victims of apparent burglaries.

  • 2 weeks ago | shawlocal.com | Bob Rakow

    A motion was granted Wednesday to detain pre-trial an Oak Park man accused of leading police on a high-speed chase, prosecutors said. Bryant Allen, 24, of the 900 block of South Humphrey Avenue, is charged with one count of aggravated fleeing and eluding a police officer and multiple misdemeanor and petty traffic offenses including reckless driving and improper lane usage, according to a DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office news release.

  • 2 weeks ago | shawlocal.com | Bob Rakow

    A Woodridge man accused of killing a bicyclist while driving drunk and then fleeing the scene was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison, prosecutors said. Salil Chander, 35, of the 4100 block of Nelson Court, entered a plea of guilty but mentally ill to one count of aggravated DUI resulting in the death of another person in front of Judge Joseph Bugos, who handed down the sentence, according to a DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office news release.

  • 2 weeks ago | shawlocal.com | Bob Rakow

    A motion was granted Sunday to deny pre-trial release for a Lombard man accused of crashing into another car after fleeing police at a high rate of speed, prosecutors said.

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