COOK COUNTY, IL – More than 450 sex buyers have been arrested by two dozen police agencies as part of an ongoing national effort to reduce sex trafficking, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. The 16th National Johns Suppression Initiative (NJSI) ran...
A 44-year-old Chicago man has been charged with aggravated DUI causing death in connection with a fatal crash in unincorporated Worth Township, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 9:15 p.m. on Aug. 12 Cook County Sheriff’s Police...
Two teens have been charged with armed robbery after a Cook County Sheriff’s Police investigation found they had robbed another man at an ATM in Ford Heights, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 8:55 a.m. on Aug. 8, two males approached a...
Two teens have been charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after Cook County Sheriff’s Police found them with loaded firearms, one which was reported stolen from Indiana, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 11:10 p.m. on July 21,...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart launched an opioid crisis awareness podcast today titled “Breaking Free: Dispatches from the Opioid Crisis.” The podcast aims to shed light on the devastating nature of opioid addiction and to give the public a...
Two people have been charged with multiple felonies after a loaded firearm and suspected heroin were found while Cook County Sheriff’s deputies were enforcing a court-ordered eviction, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 11:30 a.m....
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today that an electronically monitored defendant who escaped from Sheriff’s officers earlier this month by jumping from an apartment balcony has been apprehended, after he attempted to elude officers a second time – by...
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating a 23-year-old man who was on electronic monitoring for felony gun charges when he leapt from a balcony to escape officers. At approximately 11:20 a.m. on June 12th, Sheriff’s officers arrived at...
A individual in custody has been charged after a Sheriff’s Office investigation found he attacked a Cook County Jail staff member, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 9:40 a.m. on Thursday in Division 9, the super-maximum security facility,...
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today the launch of the Sheriff’s Opioid Addiction Recovery (SOAR) program to help address the county’s crippling opioid crisis through community-based treatment for individuals in custody returning home....