Thursday, March 28, 2013
A New Lenox resident is being held on a 35-year-old murder charge in connection with a Joliet case, but police and prosecutors are trying to figure out if he's the right guy.
A New Lenox man is being held at the Will County jail in connection with a 1978 Joliet murder, but police and prosecutors are still trying to determine whether they have their man. Pedro Hernandez was taken into custody by the New Lenox police following a March 14 crash. He was charged with driving under the influence, and when officers ran his name and identifiers, discovered someone matching his description was wanted on a warrant charging him with a 35-year-old Joliet murder. The Pedro Hernandez wanted for stabbing a man in the chest on April 2, 1978, is 66. The Pedro Hernandez arrested after the crash claims to be 67. The criminal complaint on file at the Will County Courthouse identifies the victim as Julian Bresino. The Crime …
Friday, March 22, 2013
Students will see the consequences of drunk driving during an April 4 event. The public is invited, but the presentation is not recommended for kids under age 10.
Article submitted by Plainfield School District 202: You drink and drive. You lose. The message is so simple. Yet some teens learn it only through tragedy when a friend or loved one dies in a car accident caused by drunk driving. Plainfield North High School will try to help sixth- through 12th-grade students avoid that heartbreak by hosting “Road to Reality” from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4, at the school, 12005 S. 248th Street, Plainfield. This free event is open to all District 202 middle and high school students. Refreshments will be available. Due to its graphic nature, the program is not recommended for children under age 10. “Road to Reality” is an innovative and powerful educational program that illustrates the consequences of…
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Who's been stopped recently for allegedly driving under the influence.
Feb. 22 Nicole Ann Grissom, 32, 414 Irving St., Joliet, arrested by the Will County Sheriff's Office and booked into the Will County jail on Feb. 21 on charges ofdriving under the influence of alcohol, blood alcohol content over .08 and improper turn at intersection. What to keep up on crime news from around the area? Like our Crime-n-Shame Facebook page Feb. 15 Katriel J. Walters, 27, 509 Plainfield, Joliet, arrested by the Will County Sheriff's Office and booked into the Will County jail on Feb. 15 on a charge of felony driving under the influence. Feb. 9 Albert Cruse, 21, 6708 S. Wabash, Chicago, arrested by the Romeoville Police Department at about 1:30 a.m. Feb. 9 on Route 53, south of Airport Road, and charged with driving under the …
Sunday, January 20, 2013
A look at driving under the influence arrests from around the area.
Jan. 6 Kathryn Muckey, 30, 241 Meadowbrook Dr., was arrested at 1:55 a.m. and charged withDUI, improper lighting, improper turn and no insurance following a traffic stop at Route 53 and Arrowhead Lane, police said. Jan. 6 Heriberto Vasquez, 36, 309 Woodcreek Dr., was arrested at 4:20 a.m. and charged with illegal transportation and two counts of DUI following a traffic stop at Woodcreek Drive and Timber Court, police said. What to keep up on crime news from around the area? Like our Crime-n-Shame Facebook page Jan. 5 Richard Lopez Jr., 27, 214 Kenilworth Dr., was arrested at 4:11 a.m. and charged with failure to signal, traffic signal violation, improper lane usage, no insurance and DUI following traffic stop at Hadleigh Drive and …
Friday, January 11, 2013
A look at who is facing charges for driving under the influence.
Jan. 6 Justin Helin, 29, of the 13000 block of Cambridge Circle, Plainfield, was arrested by Plainfield police at 1:05 a.m. at Main Street and Penny Lane and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, police said. What to keep up on crime news from around the area? Like our Crime-n-Shame Facebook page Jan. 1 Efrain Cruz-Diaz, 24, 688 Sheffield Ln. was arrested at 4:42 a.m. and charged with improper lane use, improper turn at intersection, illegal transportation of alcohol and DUI following a traffic stop on the 500 block of N. Pinecrest Road, police said. Dec. 31 Rigoberto Gramajo-Diaz, 34, 2823 N. Keating Ave., Chicago, was arrested at 11:07 p.m. and charged with improper passing, no valid license, illegal transportation of …
Monday, January 7, 2013
A Rockdale man who did prison time for his part in a drunken wreck that claimed the life of a 10-year-old girl in 1999 is headed back to the penitentiary.
Three years after finishing up a seven-year bit in prison for killing a girl in a drunken crash, Glen Ray Higginbotham was getting arrested again for drunken driving. A year later, while he was out on bond for that December 2010 DUI case, a drunken Higginbotham once more was arrested when he crashed into an oncoming car on New Lenox Road in unincorporated Joliet Township. "If there was ever a case where an individual was knocking on the prison doors to get in, it would be this defendant," Assistant State's Attorney Tom Slazyk said of Higginbotham during a Monday morning sentencing hearing. But Higginbotham's attorney, Alonzo Zahour, said that wasn't the case at all. The 34-year-old Higginbotham was actually sorry for his crimes and in no …
Thursday, November 29, 2012
The Cooperstown catcher's drunken driving case was postponed again.
It's been a month and a week since baseball immortal Carlton Fisk was allegedly found passed out behind the wheel of his pickup in a New Lenox cornfield, but the former Red and White Sox star has yet to make it into a Joliet courtroom. Fisk was scheduled for a hearing Thursday morning but his drunken driving case postponed until Dec. 17. Fisk's lawyer, Stephen White, is fighting to get his superstar client's driver's license back and to have evidence ejected from the case. Fisk, 64, lost his license when he allegedly refused to take a breathalyzer test during his arrest Oct. 22 on charges of driving under the influence, improper lane usage and illegal transportation of alcohol. White has also filed a motion claiming the New Lenox police …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
The lawyer for White Sox legend Carlton Fisk filed motions to have evidence thrown out in the Hall of Famer's drunken driving case.
The lawyer for White Sox immortal Carlton Fisk is fighting to get the Hall of Famer's driver's license back and to have evidence ejected from his drunken driving case. Fisk, 64, lost his license when he allegedly refused to take a breathalyzer test during his arrest Oct. 22 on charges of driving under the influence, improper lane usage and illegal transportation of alcohol. But the Sox star had actually volunteered to take the blood-alcohol test, according to a petition filed Thursday by his attorney, Stephen White. White also filed a motion claiming the New Lenox police illegally arrested Fisk since there was "no reasonable suspicion of criminal activity" to give them cause to pull him over in the first place. Only Fisk wasn't pulled over…
Monday, October 29, 2012
A woman celebrating her 34th birthday with too much booze drove into the back of the Romeoville man's semi-truck — and he kept driving, according to cops.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
A woman's 34th birthday came to a sudden and bizarre stop early Saturday when she rear-ended a semi truck on Interstate 80 in Indiana and was dragged along the highway until the driver noticed. The semi driver, Juan G. Palafox, of Romeoville, drove for a mile before he realized Natasha M. Garza was stuck to the back of his truck. Then he pulled over on Interstate 80, near Gary, according to the Chicago Tribune. Garz had been drinking to celebrate her birthday, according to police, when she crashed her Chevrolet Cobalt into Palafox's semi trailer around 2:40 a.m. Saturday. Garza's blood alcohol level was .21 percent, over two times the legal limit of .08, said Indiana State Police. Firefighters had to cut her out of her car. She was taken …
Friday, October 26, 2012
Trying to out run the police never really works, especially when you're drunk.
Oct. 15 Ozram Marzo, 26, 274 Cobb Circle, was charged with DUI and no taillights, following traffic stop at Hampshire Ln. & Winston Dr. at 3:02 a.m. Oct. 14 Jose Guzman-Gomez, 24, 315 Woodcreek Drive, was charged with two counts of hit and run, no valid driver’s license, , no insurance, two counts of DUI, hitchhiking and illegal transportation of alcohol on the 300 block of Woodcreek Drive at 11:59 a.m. Delfino Jimenez, 24, 108 Delmar Drive, was charged with DUI, improper lane usage, failure to notify damage, driving on a suspended license, hit & run and no insurance on the 500 block of Remington Blvd. at 4:11 am. Jose Amador, 50, 109 Rocklyn Court, was charged with two counts of DUI, improper turn at intersection and illegal …
John Albert
9:32 am on Saturday, April 27, 2013
John Roberts you have no clue what you are talking about when it comes to law enforcement. How many murderers, rapist, child molesters or burglers have you caught? more ›