by Mike Pierga | May 11, 2018 | Press Release
A Cook County Jail individual in custody was indicted this week on a charge of aggravated assault against a correctional deputy, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 1 p.m. on May 1, a female correctional deputy was escorting individual in custody...
by Mike Pierga | May 3, 2018 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – A Skokie man found unresponsive Wednesday morning in a courthouse bathroom was revived with naloxone, the second time in two weeks Cook County Sheriff’s Police used the opioid overdose antidote to save someone’s life, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced...
by Mike Pierga | Apr 25, 2018 | Press Release
A bill seeking to enact harsher penalties on individuals in custody who expose themselves and conduct lewd behavior while in custody was unanimously passed out of the Criminal Law Committee in the Illinois Senate on Tuesday night. Senate Bill 3104, proposed by Cook...
by Mike Pierga | Apr 24, 2018 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – A woman is alive after a Cook County Sheriff’s Police officer equipped with naloxone used the opioid overdose antidote to revive her, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 8:05 a.m. on Monday, the officer responded to a call of...
by Mike Pierga | Apr 23, 2018 | Press Release
A Cook County Jail individual in custody has been sentenced to 15 years for solicitation of murder in which he sought someone to kill witnesses in his case, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Ivan Flores, 22, was originally booked into the jail on March 17, 2016...
