No jail time for ex-detective: Jaramillo gets probation, house arrest, must pay restitution

Enter Headline here April 26, 2018MORRISON – A disgraced former Rock Fall Police detective will do no jail time for stealing cash from the department’s evidence locker.As a result of a plea agreement, Veronica Jaramillo, 45, of Sterling, will serve 2 and a half...

Former Kane County deputy sentenced to 30 days in jail for drug crimes

Zinke was charged in April 2015 after an Illinois State Police investigation into allegations she kept medications that were meant to be delivered to her department’s evidence vault. March 1, 2018A 40-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to a drug crime she...

Man Sues Chicago, Police for Wrongful Conviction

A man who spent nearly a quarter century in prison after being convicted of rape and murder before DNA testing prompted authorities to drop the charges has filed a lawsuit that alleges he was coerced by Chicago police detectives into confessing. Enter...

Cicero To Settle After CPD Buyback Gun Ends Up On Scene Of Fatal Police Shooting

A handgun turned over to police by a Cook County judge more than a decade ago as part of a gun buyback program ended up at the scene of a police shooting in Cicero July 31, 2017CHICAGO, IL — A handgun turned over to police by a Cook County judge more than a decade ago...

Ex-Melrose Park cop given 11 years in prison for selling stolen narcotics

What Salvi became, according to federal prosecutors, was a cop moonlighting as a drug dealer. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to a host of brazen schemes, including selling narcotics he’d stolen from an evidence room July 26, 2017Minutes before he was...

Feds want 14 years for ex-Melrose Park cop who sold stolen drugs

Selling drugs stolen from his police department’s evidence room in a bid to feather his nest as his retirement approached in 2015 July 12, 2017Ex-Melrose Park cop Gregory Salvi has already admitted selling drugs stolen from his police department’s evidence...