Peoria-based FBI agent pleads guilty to lying about missing cash

Journal Star, pjstar.com BYLINE: ANDY KRAVETZ (akravetz@pjstar.com) of the Journal Star Link to Article Peoria, IL A Peoria-based FBI special agent pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying about the whereabouts of more than $43,000 seized during a drug investigation. Jerry...

Yorkville cop pleads not guilty to stealing from drug collection program

Tribune Broadcasting, RADIO 720 WGN Chicago, wgnradio.com BYLINE: Art Barnum, Tribune reporter, abarnum@tribune.com Yorkville, IL Yorkville’s former deputy police chief pleaded not guilty today to charges that he stole addictive narcotic painkillers from the...

Police say DNA helped solve 30-year-old murder

The Chicago Tribune BYLINE: Art Barnum, Tribune reporter, abarnum@tribune.com Link to Article Chicago, IL Trial of deaf man in girlfriend’s fatal stabbing may involve up to 3 sign-language interpreters Gary Albert was arrested in 2008 and charged with killing...

Cop Stole Guns From Turn-In Program In Clarendon Hills, Police Allege

TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc., HUFFPOST CHICAGO, huffingtonpost.com Link to Article Clarendon Hills, IL A former police officer is accused of stealing five weapons from a gun turn-in program run by his department. Daniel Ryan of Clarendon Hills, Illinois, a western...

Former Illinois sheriff gets life terms

StLtoday.com, stltoday.com Link to Article Former Gallatin County, IL BENTON, ILL. • Former Gallatin County, Ill., Sheriff Raymond M. Martin was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Benton to two consecutive life sentences plus 10 years. Martin, 48, of Junction,...

Changes at the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Department — Since Martin

WSIL3abc, wsiltv.com BYLINE: Christen Craig Gallatin County, IL GALLATIN COUNTY– Since Raymond Martin’s arrest in May of 2009, the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Department has made some changes– including new policies meant to restore the...