Crime & Safety

Court Supervision: Not The Pedro Hernandez You Were Looking For

A New Lenox man spoke of his "horrific" ordeal in the county jail after he was arrested for a murder someone else was wanted for.

We started the week off by talking with the New Lenox man jailed for two weeks for a murder allegedly committed by someone else with the same name.

Pedro Hernandez, 67, said his and that he's looking for a lawyer to talk to about filing a lawsuit.

But Hernandez's ordeal was just one of the things going on last week. There was also:

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  • The lawyer for former Plainfield North gym teacher Ashley Blumenshine saying he expects her to plead guilty to having sex with a 16-year-old student when she makes her next court appearance.
  • A Joliet Junior College student and two school employees claiming in a lawsuit against a vending machine company that they found cockroaches in their coffee.
  • The lawyer for a teen charged with the brutal murder of a Palos husband and wife failing to get the young man's case dismissed.
  • A plea deal that didn't seem to please anyone in the case of slain NIU student Toni Keller.
  • An "emergency" at the Chicago criminal courts building that forced a postponement in a murder case at the Markham courthouse.
  • The attorney for a Matteson man charged with a Joliet murder cautioning his client that the "woods are full of snitches."

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