by Mike Pierga | Apr 25, 2019 | Press Release, Uncategorized
This Saturday, April 27, Cook County residents can help protect the environment and fight the opioid crisis by participating in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) National Prescription Drug Take Back Day and safely disposing of their expired, unused and...
by Mike Pierga | Feb 22, 2019 | Press Release
To ensure the public is better protected from those who lose their right to carry deadly weapons, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart proposed legislation Thursday to create countywide police units to recover those weapons and to improve information sharing about those...
by Mike Pierga | Feb 6, 2019 | Press Release
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...
by Mike Pierga | Jul 4, 2018 | Press Release
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. on July 2,...
by Mike Pierga | Jun 15, 2018 | Press Release
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,...
