COOK COUNTY, IL – A Kankakee man has been charged with Aggravated Battery with a Firearm following an investigation of a shooting that occurred in Ford Heights, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. On November 7, Sheriff’s Police responded to a call of...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A Chicago man has been charged with multiple felonies after he allegedly solicited sex from an undercover Cook County Sheriff’s Special Victims Unit Officer who was posing as a minor on a social media app, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. On...
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Cook County Sheriff’s Office collected 250 pounds of unused prescription drugs during its weekend National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events, which allows residents to safely dispose of potentially harmful medications, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A woman who allegedly suffocated her newborn child and buried him in the back yard of her residence is scheduled to appear in court today charged with First Degree Murder, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Sometime between Oct 31, 2020, and...
COOK COUNTY, IL -- Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today that one of the six remaining unnamed John Wayne Gacy victims has been identified with the assistance of genetic genealogy. Cook County Sheriff’s Police identified Victim #5 found in Gacy's crawl...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A second person has been charged in connection with trafficking a Chicago woman and then later kidnapping her, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Corey Bryant, 39, of the 5500 block of West Gladys Avenue in Chicago, was charged on...
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Cook County Jail’s Chess Team finished 3rd in its division during the championship round of the largest international chess competition for detained individuals, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Hosted by Cook County Jail and sanctioned by...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart and Illinois State Senator Jacqueline Collins proposed legislation today to ban ‘ghost guns,’ which are homemade, untraceable weapons that are increasingly being found by police fighting Chicago area violence....
COOK COUNTY, IL – Officers with the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Special Victims Unit arrested 24 men and towed 19 vehicles as part of an undercover operation targeting individuals seeking to buy sex, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. On Thursday,...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A Ford Heights man is scheduled to appear for a bond hearing today on charges of murder, attempted murder, and aggravated kidnapping for a shooting last weekend that left two men dead and injured another, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced...