Saturday, April 28, 2012
Evidence comes in against man accused of soliciting sex from children through the Internet. Trial was set for one of two men, the search for whom caused a lockdown of Frankfort-area schools and neighborhoods last year.
The Southland's major criminal and civil cases heard in Cook County and Will County courts this week. NEW LENOX — A judge on Thursday denied Rodney Julun’s request to put a “gag order” on two men who could be called to testify against him during trial. Julun is accused of murdering Dwight Jones of New Lenox Township with a lamp and then enlisting David Reed and John White to rob his home and property over the next several days. Evidently unaware that court hearings are open to the public, Julun said he does not believe he can get a fair trial because Reed and White have been leaking “their stories” to the media. The two men remain in jail, awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to residential burglary, and have never spoken directly …
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Also, a trial is set for the man accused in a Tinley Park woman's DUI death.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Joe Vince
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
The Southland's major criminal and civil cases heard in Cook County and Will County courts this week. FRANKFORT — Prosecutors have decided not to revoke a plea deal with Michael Angel, a former Lincoln-Way High School District 210 employee accused of trespassing on school grounds last spring, allowing the man’s one-year term of supervision to stand, court records show. As for the charge that Angel ran from a Frankfort police officer with a court warrant in November—after missing court hearings—Angel pleaded guilty and received 100 hours of community service, in addition to another 12 months of supervision, according to court records. Meanwhile, Angel has pleaded not guilty to another charge alleging he stepped on school grounds in January …
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Dazzle's owner goes to trial March 7. Also, arraignment postponed for man accused of setting fire to his family's south suburban restaurant.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Jesse Marx
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
The Southland's major criminal and civil cases heard in Cook County and Will County courts this week. TINLEY PARK — Trial starts March 7 for Dawn Hamill, the owner of Dazzle’s Painted Pastures Animal Rescue and Sanctuary, which was raided nearly one year ago. She faces dozens of counts related to animal cruelty and neglect. More than 100 animals, including a dead cat and horse, were seized from Hamill’s Tinley Park property, which prosecutors have painted as a den of feces and urine, with inadequate space and heat. When put on the stand last month for a pretrial issue, Hamill described an environment of “healthy” and “playful” animals, though she admitted that the sanctuary had been twice cited for unsanitary conditions by the Illinois …
