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chicago.suntimes.com | Frank Main
For four years, a blockbuster case has been unfolding inside a northwest Indiana courthouse, ripping the leather and chrome off one of America’s most violent biker gangs. The Sin City Deciples had thousands of members across the country, some connected to political figures and cops, prosecutors say — including a Gary police chaplain who admitted killing the son of a former Gary police chief.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Frank Main |Tim Novak |Tom Schuba
A Chicago cop is under investigation by police officials over his ties to accused extortionist Jawad Fakroune, a convicted felon and Moroccan national who authorities say posed as a relative of the drug lord Pablo Escobar. Fakroune was arrested in January, charged with using threats and violence to shake down the owner of a Lincoln Park restaurant for $1.5 million he said he was owed.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Frank Main
OTTAWA—The 86-year-old man known as the Starved Rock killer won’t get a new trial. On Wednesday, Chester Weger lost his bid to have his conviction overturned in the bludgeoning death of one of three women killed in 1960 in Starved Rock State Park. “Every witness that testified about how the murders occurred did so based on hearsay, and none of the hearsay came from an eyewitness to the murders,” Judge Michael Jansz said in denying Weger’s request.
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2 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Frank Main
On Tuesday, Shantel Robinson looked directly into the hidden camera the feds installed in her Oak Lawn apartment complex during a drug investigation, authorities say. She and her boyfriend disconnected it, and on Wednesday investigators raided her apartment, where they say they discovered a clandestine laboratory used to package illegal drugs. The investigation included searches of a storage unit in Alsip and a house in Frankfort where Robinson’s boyfriend James Howard was living, officials say.
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2 weeks ago |
wbez.org | Frank Main |Tom Schuba
At the age when many kids are busy with homework and sports, he already was a seasoned bandit. Just 12 years old and barely 5-foot-3, the boy had earned his stripes in a robbery crew, snatching iPhones on train platforms and flipping them for cash. Now, he’s known on the street as Baby 7. And cops say the 15-year-old has been one of the most prolific members of a teenage crime ring that’s been running amok across Chicago: the SRT Boys. Sum Real Threats. That’s what they call themselves.
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Managing Editor at Lake County News-Sun
Charles Selle primarily covers news in the Greater Chicago area including suburbs like Evanston and Skokie, Illinois, United States.
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Freelancer Reporter at Chicago Tribune
Clifford Ward primarily covers news in the Greater Chicago area, including suburbs like Schaumburg and Elgin, Illinois, United States.
Steve Sadin
Freelance Journalist at Chicago Tribune
Steve Sadin primarily covers news in the Greater Waukegan area including North Chicago and surrounding suburbs in Illinois, United States.
Sam Borcia
CEO and Publisher at Lake and McHenry County Scanner
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Reporter at Shaw Media
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