Man Charged With DUI After Fatal Spring Grove Crash
CHICAGO (STMW) — A man has been charged with DUI after his passenger was killed in a single-vehicle crash Sunday morning in northwest suburban Spring Grove. Ryan Heineman, 33, was charged with...
View ArticleMan Charged With Drunk Driving In Crash That Killed Off-Duty Cop
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Northwest Side man has been charged with driving drunk in a crash that left an off-duty Chicago Police officer dead early Sunday in southwest suburban Forest View. Andres Quinones,...
View ArticleMan Gets 7 Years In Prison For Drunk Driving Crash That Severed Man’s Leg
CHICAGO (CBS) — A west suburban man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for driving drunk and causing a crash that led to a motorcyclist losing his leg more than two years ago in rural Kane...
View ArticleWoman Gets 13 Years For Hitting State Trooper In Drunken Crash
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 61-year-old woman has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for running over an Illinois State Police trooper on the Tri-State tollway two years ago, and causing a crash that injured...
View ArticleMan Charged With DUI, Reckless Homicide For Fatal Dekalb Crash
CHICAGO (CBS) — A west suburban man has been charged with DUI and reckless homicide for a crash that left one man dead Tuesday evening in DeKalb. The four-vehicle crash involving a 2001 Chevrolet...
View ArticleMan Gets 10 Days In Jail For Drunken Crash That Killed Cyclist
CHICAGO (CBS) — There has been some outrage after a Cook County judge sentenced a Park Ridge man to only 10 days in jail and four years of probation. Ryne San Hamel, 32, pleaded guilty to aggravated...
View ArticleMan Charged With DUI After Fatal West Town Crash
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man has been charged with DUI after causing a crash Saturday afternoon that left one man dead and two others injured in West Town, police said. Yonatan D. Monrroy-Madrid, 19, faces...
View ArticleMan Convicted Of DUI, Reckless Homicide In Fatal Crash
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 31-year-old West Chicago man was found guilty Thursday of causing a December 2014 crash that killed another man. Omar Montoya Medina, of the 100 block of East Pomeroy Street, was...
View ArticleWoman Gets 14 Years For Crash That Killed Newspaper Deliveryman
CHICAGO (CBS) — A woman who rammed her husband’s car, causing a crash that killed a newspaper deliveryman nearly two years ago on the South Side, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Shikita...
View ArticleMan Charged With Reckless Homicide In Fatal DUI Crash
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Southwest Side man was drunk and high when he caused a crash that left a passenger in his vehicle dead early Thursday on the Southwest Side, according to police. Giovanni Roman, 24,...
View ArticleWoman Charged With Driving Drunk With 3 Kids In Car
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 23-year-old woman was charged Monday with driving drunk in west suburban Riverside while three small children were in the car. Lucero M. Reyes, of Chicago, was driving south in the...
View ArticleMan Charged With DUI In Fatal Crash In Palos Township
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man has been charged with several counts of aggravated DUI for causing a crash that killed two friends early Monday near southwest suburban Lemont, according to police. The driver of...
View ArticleAurora Police Seize 3 Illegal Guns After Traffic Stop, Crash
CHICAGO (CBS) — Police seized three illegal handguns in two separate incidents, a crash and a traffic stop, last weekend in west suburban Aurora. Two handguns, one of them loaded, were found in a 2015...
View ArticleWoman Charged With DUI After Striking, Killing Man In West Englewood
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 21-year-old woman is facing a DUI charge after she struck and killed a man late Saturday in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. Deshonnette A. Morrison faces one felony...
View ArticleMan Charged With DUI After Cop And Woman Struck By Vehicle
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man has been charged with DUI after a Chicago Police officer and a woman were both struck by a vehicle early Sunday in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side. Lashawn...
View ArticleMan Charged With DUI In Crash That Killed Passenger In Archer Heights
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man is facing felony charges after a passenger in his SUV was killed Sunday evening in a rollover crash in the Southwest Side Archer Heights neighborhood. David A. Arocho, 24, was...
View ArticleMan Charged With DUI After Fleeing Police, Crashing On Dan Ryan Expressway
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man has been charged with DUI after he took off from police early Friday in the South Side Fuller Park neighborhood and led officers on a chase down the Dan Ryan Expressway. Peter...
View ArticleWoman Charged With DUI For McCook Crash That Left Passenger Dead
CHICAGO (CBS) — A woman has been charged with DUI for a crash that left her passenger dead in west suburban McCook about six weeks ago. Tracey Fellows, 35, was charged Wednesday with one count of...
View ArticleMan Charged With DUI For Shorewood Crash On I-55 Ramp
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man is facing DUI charges for a crash that seriously injured his passenger early Wednesday on an I-55 ramp in southwest suburban Shorewood. Christopher Johnson, 21, was driving at...
View ArticleWoman Charged With DUI For Fatal Near West Side Crash
CHICAGO (CBS) — A woman is facing DUI charges for a crash early Monday that left one man dead and five other people injured on the Near West Side. Tiara S. Richardson, 29, of the South Side Bronzeville...
View ArticleWoman Charged With Drunk Driving In Fatal Brighton Park Crash
CHICAGO (CBS) — The driver in a Brighton Park car crash that killed the 18-year-old passenger was charged Wednesday with aggravated driving under the influence. Adrienne Garcia, 27, had a blood-alcohol...
View ArticlePolice: Woman Was Driving Drunk With 3-Year-Old In Car
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Stickney woman is facing charges after being caught driving drunk with her 3-year-old child in the SUV early Wednesday in west suburban Riverside. At 1:38 a.m., an officer noticed a...
View ArticleMan Charged With Reckless Homicide For Tinley Park Crash
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man is facing reckless homicide and DUI charges for causing a crash that killed a man and injured two others early Tuesday in southwest suburban Tinley Park. The two-vehicle crash...
View ArticleMan Charged With Murder In Fatal DUI Crash In Carjacked Vehicle
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Streamwood man has been charged with carjacking and murder in a crash that killed a 69-year-old woman in the Goose Island neighborhood earlier this week. Police said 29-year-old...
View ArticleMan Charged In Drunken High-Speed Crash That Killed Single Mother
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 27-year-old man has been charged with reckless homicide, after allegedly killing a single mother when he slammed into her car while driving drunk and speeding in west suburban Berwyn...
View ArticleHuntley Man Sentenced 7-Years For 6th DUI
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Huntley man will spend the next seven years in prison after pleading guilty to his sixth DUI offence, according to the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office. Richard Broz, 59, was...
View ArticleMan Charged With DUI In Crash That Killed A Mother And Daughter
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 48-year-old man has been charged with driving under the influence, in connection with a crash that killed a mother and daughter in Hoffman Estates earlier this month. Police said,...
View ArticleDrunk Driver Killed Pregnant Mother Of Four, Prosecutors Say
CHICAGO (CBS) —A family is pushing for justice after a pregnant 29-year-old mother of four was killed Monday night as she helped push a disabled car off of Lake Street in northwest suburban Streamwood....
View ArticleWoman Charged With DUI, Reckless Homicide In Crash That Killed Sheriff’s...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Markham woman has been charged with reckless homicide and DUI in a head-on crash that killed a Cook County Sheriff’s deputy Monday night in Mount Greenwood. Monzerat Perez, 21, has...
View ArticleDriver Charged With Leaving Scene Of Fiery Drunken Stevenson Expressway Crash...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A drunk driver fled the scene of a fiery crash on the Stevenson Expressway on Sunday, after slamming into the back of an on-duty Uber vehicle, killing 23-year-old Jamie Poulos, who was...
View ArticleChicago Police Officer Terrance Finley Posts Bond After Being Charged For...
CHICAGO (CBS) — An off-duty Chicago police officer, who was charged in the crash that killed Marquita Reed, posted bond Tuesday afternoon. Terrance Finley, 24, was charged with reckless homicide,...
View ArticleChildren Of Marquita Reed, Killed In Crash Involving Off-Duty CPD Officer,...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Police Officer Terrance Finley is free Tuesday night after posting his $40,000 bond. He is accused of slamming his car into a restaurant at 87th and Wood, killing 35-year-old...
View ArticleWoman Charged With DUI After Chasing And Ramming Car, Claiming 3 Kids Had...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 33-year-old woman was charged with drunk driving in Joliet on Sunday, after police said she chased and rammed another vehicle, wrongly believing three children had been kidnapped....
View ArticleWoman Charged With DUI In Hit-And-Run That Killed Anne Johnson, Mother Of 8
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 21-year-old woman has been charged with aggravated DUI and several misdemeanors, after she allegedly killed a mother of eight in a hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning in North...
View ArticleMan Charged With Aggravated DUI In Crash That Injured Two CPD Officers
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 26-year-old man has been charged with aggravated DUI, after causing a crash that injured three people, including two police officers early Sunday in the South Austin neighborhood....
View ArticleWoman Charged In DUI Hit-And-Run That Critically Injured Divvy Rider
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Romeoville woman has been charged with driving under the influence after a hit-and-run that critically injured a Divvy bike rider in the River North neighborhood in June. Police said...
View ArticleMan Charged With DUI After Crashing Into Lake County Sheriff’s Squad Car At...
VOLO, Ill. (CBS) — A man has been arrested on aggravated DUI and other felony charges, after slamming into a Lake County Sheriff’s squad car that was blocking traffic after an earlier crash on Monday...
View ArticleMan Was Driving Drunk And High On Cocaine In Fatal Beach Park Crash, Police Say
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Waukegan man has been charged with driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol in a crash that killed one person and injured two others last May in Beach Park. Juan Aguiar, 37,...
View ArticleDrunk Man Coughed On Niles Cops, Shouted ‘Now You Have The Corona,’ Police Say
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 52-year-old man who had been driving drunk earlier this month in north suburban Niles intentionally coughed on police officers who tried to conduct field sobriety tests, and claimed...
View ArticleBond Set At $500,000 for Cicero Woman Accused of Causing Fatal Crash While...
By Mary Chappell A $500,000 bond was set Tuesday for a Cicero woman accused of crashing her car into an Elmhurst residential area construction zone while under the influence, killing her fiancée early...
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