by Mike Pierga | Jan 13, 2016 | Press Release
The Illinois Department of Children & Family Services is joining forces with the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in a landmark mission to locate and save runaway state wards, who are particularly vulnerable to crime and trafficking. As part of a two-year pilot...
by Mike Pierga | Jan 10, 2016 | Press Release
A 26-year-old man has been charged with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor after the Cook County Sheriff’s Vice Unit arrested him during an undercover operation, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said today. James R. Taylor, of Broadview, was arrested Jan. 8 in the western...
by Mike Pierga | Dec 28, 2015 | Press Release
Update: Thursday, December 31, 2015 – William Anderson was located this afternoon by Morton Grove Police at a motel in the 9100 block of Waukegan Road. He appeared to be in good condition. He was taken to an area hospital for an evaluation. Sheriff Dart would like...
by Mike Pierga | Dec 23, 2015 | Press Release
In March 2015, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced a campaign to take on the system that actively facilitates the unjust incarceration of the mentally ill and poor in Cook County. He implored the public and criminal justice stakeholders to imagine the reality...
by Mike Pierga | Dec 23, 2015 | Press Release
A Cook County Sheriff’s Police investigation has led to the arrest of two men in the murder of a man found shot to death on the western edge of the Kickapoo Meadows, a Cook County Forest Preserve near Harvey, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 2...