COOK COUNTY, IL – More than 390 individuals were arrested by two dozen police agencies across the country as part of an operation to deter johns and interrupt the online havens of sex trafficking, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. The 17th National...
A 53-year-old Berwyn man has been charged with indecent solicitation of a child following a Cook County Sheriff’s Police Vice Unit operation, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. According to the investigation, on Feb. 1, a man, later identified as Jon Bilich,...
A Cook County jail individual in custody has been charged after an undercover investigation found that he had sought to hire someone to kill three witnesses in his current case, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Earlier this month, Sheriff’s investigators...
Two children were found walking outside alone in unincorporated Arlington Heights, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 2:10 p.m. today, Sheriff’s Police responded to a report of two children, a 3-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl, walking outside...
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart is asking for the public’s help in identifying the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed a pedestrian in Leyden Township. At approximately 2:55 a.m. on Jan. 21, Sheriff’s Police located an unresponsive 37-year-old man with...
An investigation by the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Vice Unit and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security led to the arrest of a 39-year-old Gurnee man for promoting prostitution at a Chicago apartment, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. On Dec. 13, a search...
Two dogs that recently completed the Sheriff’s Tails of Redemption program at the Cook County Jail, are still looking for a forever home, Sheriff Dart announced today. Gilmore and Rochelle graduated from Tails of Redemption, in which the Sheriff’s Office partnered...
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart is asking for the public’s help locating a Madden Mental Health Center patient who ran away from the facility early this morning. Christian Olson is 49 years old. He is approximately 6’3” tall and approximately 260 pounds. He is...
Cook County Sheriff’s Police are seeking to identify individuals in these photographs as they may have information about a shooting that occurred last week in Robbins. Sheriff’s Police detectives are interested in speaking to these individuals who were at Manny’s Blue...
A 72-year-old man has been charged after an investigation found that he sent explicit images of children using a messaging app, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Edward Evans of Western Springs was charged Nov. 14 with two counts of distributing...