COOK COUNTY, IL – The Sheriff’s Office is warning the public of a telephone scam in which a caller threatens arrest unless thousands of dollars are deposited at a Cook County Jail kiosk. The Sheriff’s Office has received reports that a caller has been contacting...
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Cook County Sheriff’s Office successfully located a missing and endangered man following an aerial drone search of a heavily wooded section of Deer Park West Forest Preserve in Palatine today, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced. On...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff’s Police will be conducting a roadside safety checkpoint in Chicago, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. The checkpoint is scheduled for June 25, from 7 p.m. to midnight, near East 79th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue....
COOK COUNTY, IL – A 57-year-old Chicago man is facing a Class 1 Felony Theft charge after the Sheriff’s Police Organized Retail Crime Unit recovered approximately $400,000 in stolen fitness equipment and other goods taken during area cargo thefts, Cook County Sheriff...
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,...