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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Wheaton Chief of Police William Murphy announced
that bond has been set for a Wheaton man accused of shooting at vehicles
outside his home.
Posted Date: 07/26/2021
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DuPage County State’s
Attorney Robert Berlin announced today that bond has been set at $1 million for a Chicago man
charged with making a threatening phone call to the office of Candice Adams,
Clerk of the DuPage County Circuit Court.
Posted Date: 07/23/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and
Westmont Chief of Police Jim Gunther announced today that charges have been
filed against two employees of a Westmont nursing home for their alleged roles
in the death of a ninety-six-year-old female resident in February, 2021.
Posted Date: 07/01/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced that last Friday afternoon a Bloomingdale
man accused of shooting at two Bloomingdale police officers outside his home in
2018 was sentenced to twenty-five years in the Illinois Department of
Corrections.
Posted Date: 06/28/2021
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DuPage
County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Naperville Chief of Police Robert
Marshall announced today that bond has been set for a Plainfield man accused of
shooting his girlfriend’s brother in the abdomen.
Posted Date: 06/26/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert
Berlin announced that on June 21, 2021, his office filed multiple charges
related to election fraud in the 2021 municipal election against Susan Cain of Wheaton.
Posted Date: 06/25/2021
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DuPage County State’s
Attorney Robert Berlin announced today that a seventeen-year-old Aurora
juvenile accused of firing a handgun at a vehicle while at an Aurora gas
station has entered a plea of guilty to one count of Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm
(Class 1 Felony) and one count of Possession of a Firearm by a Gang Member
(Class 2 Felony).
Posted Date: 06/24/2021
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DuPage County State’s
Attorney Robert B. Berlin, Downers Grove Chief of Police Shanon Gillette and Oakbrook
Terrace Chief of Police Casey Calvello announced today that bond has been denied
for a man currently on parole for an armed robbery out of Cook County accused
of robbing several hundred dollars from two DuPage County businesses.
Posted Date: 06/23/2021
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DuPage County State’s
Attorney Robert Berlin and Elmhurst Chief of Police Michael Ruth announced
today that Judge Brian Jacobs has ordered that a seventeen-year-old Lynwood
juvenile accused of stealing a vehicle at gunpoint will be detained until at
least his next court appearance.
Posted Date: 06/23/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced
today that the second of two adults charged with attempting to steal a vehicle
from the garage of a Downers Grove residence has been sentenced to sixteen
years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Posted Date: 06/21/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin, Wood Dale
Chief of Police Greg Vesta and Illinois State Police Director Brendan F. Kelly
announced today that bond has been set for a Des Plaines man accused of
multiple drug and weapons charges following a high-speed pursuit late last
month.
Posted Date: 06/21/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Hinsdale
Chief of Police Brian King announced that on June 16, 2021, a second juvenile charged
with burglary and theft of a high-end vehicle from two Hinsdale auto dealerships
will be detained until at least his next court date of June 23, 2021.
Posted Date: 06/17/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Villa Park Chief of Police Mike Rivas
announced today that bond has been set for a Villa Park man accused robbing at
gunpoint a 711 convenience store.
Posted Date: 06/12/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert
Berlin announced today that James D’Alise, 78 (d.o.b. 12/24/1942) of the 0-100
block of Godair Circle, Burr Ridge, has been sentenced to 270 days in the
DuPage County Jail for practicing dentistry without a license.
Posted Date: 06/09/2021
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WHEATON - DuPage
County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced today that Kelvin Brown, 42
(d.o.b. 4/13/1979) believed to be homeless with a last known address in
Bellwood, appeared in court today where he entered a plea of not guilty to one
count of Aggravated Battery (Class 3 Felony) and two counts of Public Indecency
(Class 4 Felony).
Posted Date: 06/09/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Glen Ellyn Chief of
Police Philip Norton announced today that bond has been set for a homeless man
charged with shooting at a moving vehicle while traveling on Roosevelt Road in
Glen Ellyn.
Posted Date: 06/05/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Illinois State Police Captain Dan Likens announced
that bond was set for a Schaumburg man charged with shooting at a moving vehicle
while traveling on an expressway in Itasca.
Posted Date: 06/01/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert
Berlin, Wood Dale Chief of Police Greg Vesta and Illinois State Police Director Brendan F. Kelly announced today that
bond has been set for a Des Plaines man accused of multiple weapons and drug
charges following a high-speed pursuit last Thursday night.
Posted Date: 05/30/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Naperville Chief of Police Robert Marshall announced today that bond has been set for an Aurora man charged shooting a rival gang member several times while on his way out for dinner.
Posted Date: 05/28/2021
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DuPage County State’s
Attorney Robert Berlin and Glendale Heights Chief of Police Douglas Flint announced
today that Judge Brian Jacobs has ordered that a Glendale Heights juvenile
accused of stabbing another juvenile in the abdomen will be released to the
custody of his mother on home detention lockdown.
Posted Date: 05/26/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Villa Park Chief of Police Michael Rivas announced
today that a Villa Park man has been charged with the murder of his live-in
girlfriend and mother of his three children, Esmeralda DeLuna, 24.
Posted Date: 05/21/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced today that a jury has found Julius Ramsey, 38, guilty of sexually assaulting at gunpoint, a female employee of an Oak Brook hotel in the fall of 2019.
Posted Date: 05/20/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Wood Dale Chief of Police Greg Vesta
announced today that bond has been set for a Wood Dale man charged with the
murder of his father, Robert Castellano, also of Wood Dale.
Posted Date: 05/18/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Hinsdale Chief of
Police Brian King announced today that bond has been set for an adult, and a
juvenile has been ordered detained, both of whom have been charged with burglary
and theft of a high-end vehicle from two Hinsdale auto dealerships.
Posted Date: 05/18/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Naperville Chief of Police Robert Marshall
announced today that bond has been set for a former Naperville North High
School assistant boys basketball coach accused of possessing child pornography.
Posted Date: 05/13/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Aurora Chief
of Police Kristen Ziman announced today that Judge Anthony Coco has ordered a
seventeen-year-old Aurora juvenile accused of firing a handgun at a vehicle while
at an Aurora gas station be detained until at least his next court appearance.
Posted Date: 05/12/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert
B. Berlin announced that Dwayne Dykes, 43, (d.o.b. 2/14/1978) of the 5400
block of South Wood Street, Chicago, has been sentenced to nineteen years in the Illinois Department of
Corrections for beating his former girlfriend and mother of their two children.
Posted Date: 05/03/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Winfield Chief of Police David Schar announced today that bond has been set for Plano
woman accused of dropping her five-year-old daughter off a six-story parking
garage at Central DuPage Hospital.
Posted Date: 05/01/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Carol
Stream Chief of Police William Holmer announced today that bond has been set for
a Lisle man accused of robbing a Carol Stream gas station at knifepoint.
Posted Date: 04/30/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced today that the first of two adults charged
with attempting to steal a vehicle from the garage of a Downers Grove residence
has been sentenced to twelve years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Posted Date: 04/30/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Glen Ellyn Chief of Police Philip Norton announced
today that bond has been set for a Chicago man accused of stealing a black 2016
Lincoln MKX SUV from the driveway of a Glen Ellyn home.
Posted Date: 04/29/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin
and Wheaton Chief of Police William Murphy announced today that bond has been
set for two individuals for their roles in an apparent fentanyl overdose of a
Wheaton man, thirty-two-year-old Nicholas Donzelli.
Posted Date: 04/20/2021
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DuPage County State’s
Attorney Robert Berlin and Oak Brook Chief of Police James Kruger announced
today that a Chicago man has been sentenced to seventeen years in the Illinois
Department of Corrections for hijacking a sixty-seven-year-old woman’s car at
gunpoint in the spring of 2018.
Posted Date: 04/17/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Elmhurst Chief of Police Mike Ruth announced
today that a Lombard man has been charged with murder following an altercation
at an Elmhurst bar last Saturday night.
Posted Date: 04/13/2021
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DuPage County State’s
Attorney Robert Berlin and Aurora Chief of Police Kristen Ziman announced that bond
has been set for an Aurora man accused of firing a gun into the back of his
girlfriend’s unoccupied vehicle.
Posted Date: 04/07/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin
and Naperville Chief of Police Robert Marshall announced today that bond has
been set for a Bolingbrook man accused of setting
fire to a Naperville martial arts studio last month
Posted Date: 04/07/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Elmhurst Chief of Police Michael Ruth announced
today that Felony Theft charges have been filed against a former employee of Elmhurst
Hospital accused of stealing more than $218,000 from the hospital cafeteria.
Posted Date: 03/30/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Naperville Chief
of Police Robert Marshall announced that bond was set Saturday for a Chicago
woman accused of Aggravated Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol – Sixth
Offense, a Class X Felony.
Posted Date: 03/29/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and DuPage
County Sheriff James Mendrick announced today that bond has been set for a Willowbrook
man accused of striking three DuPage County Sheriff’s Deputies as they attempted
to take him into custody yesterday morning following a hearing on a pending
domestic battery case against him.
Posted Date: 03/27/2021
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DuPage County State’s
Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced today a two-time convicted felon who is
currently out on bond out of DuPage County and on parole out of Cook County will
be held on a $150,000 with 10% to apply bond after he was allegedly found to be
in possession of a loaded handgun. The State had asked for a bond of $500,000
with 10% to apply.
Posted Date: 03/23/2021
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DuPage
County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Lombard Chief of Police Roy Newton announced
today Possession of Child Pornography charges have been filed against a Lombard
man who is currently on federal pre-trial services after pleading guilty to possessing
child pornography.
Posted Date: 03/13/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney
Robert Berlin announced today that Todd
Heidenthal, 50, of Lombard, has been sentenced to six months
in the DuPage County Jail for causing a crash that took the life of
seventy-eight-year-old Florence Hsiao.
Posted Date: 03/12/2021
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DuPage County State’s
Attorney Robert Berlin announced today that late yesterday evening a six-person
jury found a former Bartlett High School chemistry teacher guilty of Reckless Conduct
for injuring a student during a science demonstration.
Posted Date: 03/10/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert
Berlin announced today that his office has filed charges against five individuals
accused of various charges related to election fraud in the 2020 general election.
Posted Date: 03/09/2021
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DuPage
County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced today a two-time convicted
felon who is currently out on bond out of Cook County will be held on a
$150,000 with 10% to apply bond after he was allegedly found to be in
possession of a loaded handgun. The State had asked that the defendant be held
without bond.
Posted Date: 03/08/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Addison Director of
Police Bill Hayden announced today that Judge Brian Jacobs ordered a third Chicago
teen charged with hijacking a woman’s car at gunpoint from an Addison Popeye’s restaurant
parking lot will remain in custody until at least his next court appearance.
Posted Date: 03/02/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin
and West Chicago Interim Chief of Police Chris Shackelford announced today that
bond has been denied for a DeKalb man accused of shooting an innocent man
during his dinner break from work.
Posted Date: 02/12/2021
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DuPage County State’s
Attorney Robert B. Berlin, DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, Addison Chief
of Police Bill Hayden and Wood Dale Chief of Police Greg Vesta announced today
that bond has been denied for a Bensenville man suspected in a string of DuPage
County armed robberies who has been on parole for less than one year following
a Class X Armed Robbery conviction out of Cook County.
Posted Date: 02/10/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Bartlett Police Department Chief Patrick Ullrich announced today that Felony Theft charges have been filed against the owner of a Bartlett travel agency for allegedly stealing more than $100,000 from clients of the agency.
Posted Date: 02/09/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney
Robert Berlin, Lombard Chief of Police Roy Newton and DuPage County Sheriff
James Mendrick announced today that bond has been set for a Bellwood Police
Commander accused of possessing child pornography.
Posted Date: 02/06/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced that on
February 1, 2021, the Second District Appellate Court of Illinois affirmed the natural
life sentence imposed by former DuPage County Circuit Court Judge George
Bakalis upon convicted double murderer Joseph Arrieta, 43.
Posted Date: 02/03/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Roselle Police Chief Steve Herron announced that
bond has been set for a Roselle woman accused of pouring boiling water on her
boyfriend as he slept on the couch.
Posted Date: 02/02/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Addison Director of
Police Bill Hayden announced today that Judge Brian Jacobs ordered that a second
Chicago teen charged with hijacking a woman’s car at gunpoint from an Addison Popeye’s
restaurant parking lot will remain in custody until at least his next court
appearance.
Posted Date: 02/01/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Addison Director of Police Bill Hayden announced
today that Judge Brian Jacobs ordered that a Chicago teen charged with hijacking
a woman’s car at gunpoint from a Popeye’s restaurant parking lot will remain in
custody until at least his next court appearance.
Posted Date: 01/25/2021
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DuPage County
State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Wheaton Chief of Police William Murphy announced
today that a Carol Stream man has been arrested and charged with robbing a Walgreens
drug store with a hatchet last weekend.
Posted Date: 01/20/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced today
that on January 6, 2021, Judge Alex McGimpsey sentenced a former Joliet Central
High School physics teacher to four years in the Illinois Department of
Corrections for sexually assaulting a female student at the high school.
Posted Date: 01/08/2021
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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced today that the Second District Appellate Court of Illinois has affirmed the ninety-year sentence of Sean Helgesen for the 1993 murders of Peter and Diana Robles.
Posted Date: 01/04/2021