COOK COUNTY, IL – A bill championed by Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart that creates new guidelines for missing persons investigations awaits the Governor’s signature after it passed the Illinois General Assembly. SB 24, the Missing Persons Identification Act,...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A convicted sex offender has been charged with child pornography felonies following a months-long Sheriff’s Police investigation, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. In February, Special Victims Division investigators with the...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff’s Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing teenager from unincorporated Arlington Heights. Luz “Lulu” Esperanza Martinez Rodriguez was last seen leaving her home in the 4100 block of Jennifer Lane on the...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A 29-year-old Chicago man has been charged with possession of child pornography following a Sheriff’s Police Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) investigation, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. In October, the ICAC Unit began...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff’s Police will be conducting a roadside safety checkpoint in Morton Grove, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. The checkpoint, in partnership with the Morton Grove Police Department, is scheduled for the evening of May 9 near...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A 23-year-old man has been charged with burglary after Sheriff’s Police found him inside a cancer treatment center with items he had stolen from the facility, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 7:00 a.m. on Monday,...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A former cemetery employee has been charged with multiple felonies after a Cook County Sheriff’s Police investigation found she secretly pocketed more than $100,000 from payments for funeral expenses, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Sheriff’s...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A 39-year-old man appeared in court yesterday after an undercover investigation by the Sheriff’s Police Vice Unit determined he was trafficking an individual for prostitution, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. On Wed. March 26, Vice...
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Cook County Sheriff’s Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit, in collaboration with the U.S. Marshals Task Force, located and charged a fugitive wanted for escaping from electronic monitoring while awaiting trial on a criminal sex assault case...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Two convicted felons are charged with gun and drug felonies after Sheriff’s Police recovered multiple firearms, various suspected narcotics, and drug paraphernalia from a home in south suburban Harvey, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced...