by Grace Cronin | Aug 21, 2025 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – Legislation championed by Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart that creates new guidelines for missing persons investigations is now state law. SB 24, the Missing Persons Identification Act, sponsored by Sen. Michael Hastings in the Senate and Rep....
by Grace Cronin | Aug 15, 2025 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – An Orland Park man who was shot by Sheriff’s Police as he savagely attacked two women in an unincorporated Lyons Township apartment building has been charged with attempted murder and home invasion, but charges are expected to be upgraded to murder...
by Grace Cronin | Aug 11, 2025 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – A man who dragged a small dog behind his vehicle has been charged with aggravated animal cruelty, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 8 p.m. on Aug. 1, Sheriff’s Police officers stopped a silver pickup truck being...
by Grace Cronin | Jul 3, 2025 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Sheriff’s Office is warning the public of a telephone scam in which a caller threatens arrest unless thousands of dollars are deposited at a Cook County Jail kiosk. The Sheriff’s Office has received reports that a caller has been contacting...
by Grace Cronin | Jul 1, 2025 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Cook County Sheriff’s Office successfully located a missing and endangered man following an aerial drone search of a heavily wooded section of Deer Park West Forest Preserve in Palatine today, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced. On...
