COOK COUNTY, IL – A 40-year-old man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment resulting in the death of a child, after his one-month-old son allegedly died of drug poisoning while in his care, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. On May...
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Cook County Sheriff’s Office collected 1,414 pounds of pills during recent National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events, which allow residents to safely dispose of potentially harmful medications, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. “We...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today the opening of a Sheriff’s Office command post in Chicago’s River North neighborhood to help deter crime, an expansion of the Office’s effort to combat violence throughout the city. The River North...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff’s Police investigators are seeking information from the public to help solve a homicide that occurred last year in unincorporated Maine Township. At approximately 3:50 p.m. on April 22, 2021, Erik Esquivel was shot multiple times...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart commended the federal government for working to tighten restrictions on untraceable ‘ghost guns’ that evade background checks and are increasingly showing up on the streets of Chicago. The federal move comes after...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart applauded the Illinois General Assembly today for passing legislation to combat the proliferation of unserialized “ghost guns” that make it impossible to trace weapons and harder to solve violent crimes....
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced legislation today requiring auto manufacturers to create a 24/7 recovery hotline to help law enforcement quickly track stolen vehicles. The inability for law enforcement to access tracking information in...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A 39-year-old flight attendant has been charged with possession of child pornography for allegedly sending and receiving sexually explicit images and videos of children under the age of 13 on his cellphone, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart...
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Cook County Sheriff’s Office is now providing immediate on-scene mental health co-response overnight and on weekends to residents of the Village of Northbrook under an agreement between the Sheriff’s Office and the Northbrook Police Department,...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Members of the Cook County Sheriff’s Fugitive Apprehension Unit and the US Marshals Great Lakes Regional Task Force arrested a 26-year-old man wanted for stabbing three people in a Las Vegas hotel parking lot, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today....