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...
COOK COUNTY – A Des Plaines man has been charged with possession of child pornography after investigators found sexually explicit images of children under the age of 13 on his cellphone, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. SVU investigators traced...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Due to the unfair burden on Sheriff’s Office staff, and Cook County taxpayers, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office filed a petition for a writ of mandamus asking the Illinois Supreme Court to require the Illinois Department of Corrections to abide by...
COOK COUNTY, IL – A Chicago woman who befriended and then sexually trafficked a runaway teen has been charged with involuntary sexual servitude and human trafficking, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. On Thursday, September 16, members of the...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff’s Police Detective Ginny Georgantas, whose tireless devotion to solving the 17-year-old murders of twin infant boys led her to learn the complex field of forensic genealogy, has been named the 2021 Officer of the Year by the...