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Cops' 'Free TV' Sting Operation Nabs More Than 100 Fugitives

Posted 12.04.2011

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Cook County Sheriff's police arrested more than 100 fugitives last month during a sting operation that lured wanted criminals to a county government w...

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Man Robs Friends, Is Immediately Identified

Posted 10.15.2011

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The two victims of an armed robbery this weekend welcomed their assailant into the parked car where they sat chatting in Ford Heights, and the three c...

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Wanted: 1,000+ Deadbeat Parents

Posted 08.21.2011

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One day after Father's Day, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced Monday that his department's website would, within the next two weeks, post photogr...

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Mass Incarceration Undoes California (And the Rest of Us Too)

Locke Bowman | Posted 08.07.2011

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Take away the fiscal emergency, and the California prison case would never have reached the Supreme Court. Instead, there'd be a boom in prison construction.

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Cook County Sheriff Ramps Up Fight Against Suburban Gangs

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 07.18.2011

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Cook County Sheriff's gang investigators couldn't believe their eyes. The Bloods -- a California gang portrayed in movies like "Colors" -- have nev...

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WATCH: Cops Say Man Kept Alligator In Home To Attract Women

The Huffington Post | Jen Sabella | Posted 07.06.2011

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A Ford Heights man told Cook County Sheriff's police that he kept a 4-foot-long American alligator in his home because "it attracted women." Deway...

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Man Makes Daring Escape From Police, On Crutches

Posted 06.27.2011

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James Roesch was briefly able to elude Cook County sheriff's deputies Tuesday morning, in an escape made all the more daring by his hobbling around on...

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Tween Drinking: Sheriff Says Waitress Served 12-Year-Old

Posted 05.30.2011

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Teen drinking is one of those much-decried social ills that's begun to seem almost inevitable. But tween drinking -- that's not one you hear about ver...

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Cook County Sheriff Calls Mass Baby Burials 'Disturbing'

The Huffington Post | Jen Sabella | Posted 05.25.2011

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While it certainly doesn't sound legal to have 26 babies buried together in a wooden box along with unidentified limbs and bones, the practice is actu...

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Toni Preckwinkle In Power Struggle With Tom Dart Over Budget

Posted 05.25.2011

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Two of Cook County's up-and-coming reform-minded leaders are set to square off in a battle for budget dollars. Tom Dart, the Cook County Sheriff, is ...

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Fake Lawyer Tried Over 60 Cases With No Law Degree

Posted 05.25.2011

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Tahir Malik, a 47-year-old man from Skokie, Illinois, "walked around the courtroom like he was a hotshot, strutting around," said one of his clients. ...

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Family Angry At Cops For Ruining 'Designer Marijuana' Operation

Posted 05.25.2011

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A Tinley Park family busted for running a $1 million marijuana grow operation in their suburban home is furious with the Cook County Sheriff's police ...

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Man Jumps From Window To Avoid Paying Child Support

Posted 05.25.2011

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A Chicago man broke both of his legs Tuesday after jumping from a third-floor window to avoid an arrest for unpaid child support. Ronald "Boobie" ...

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Sheriff Wants To Stop New Burials At Burr Oak

Southtown Star | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is trying to prevent new burials from taking place in a 10-acre parcel of Burr Oak cemetery where human remains were dug ...

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Assault Rifles Stolen From Police Firing Range; Sheriff's Investigation Thwarted

chicagopublicradio.org | Produced by Alex Keefe on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 | Posted 05.25.2011

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Police in south suburban Harvey say nearly two dozen guns have been stolen from their firing range. They range from handguns to high-powered rifles....

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'Operation Room Service': 100 Arrested, $100,000 Recovered In Sting

Chicago Public Radio | Susie An | Posted 05.25.2011

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More than 100 people were arrested and more than $100,000 in drugs and cash seized as part of a six-month investigation dubbed "Operation Room Service...

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Burr Oak Cemetery Opening Online Records Database

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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ALSIP, Ill. (AP) -- Authorities plan to give the public access to a searchable online database of nearly 100,000 graves at the historic black cemetery...

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Sheriff Hires Ex-Prostitutes, Closes Mother-Daughter Brothel

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Cook County sheriff's office has added two former prostitutes to the payroll as part of its efforts to combat the world's oldest profession, STNG ...

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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart Named To Time 100

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 05.25.2011

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It may be a sign of the times that the two biggest issues on Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's plate are mortgage defaulters and prostitutes. Or maybe no...

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Sheriff Sets Up Suburban Government Corruption Unit

WBBM Newsradio | Posted 05.25.2011

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[Cook County Sheriff Thomas] Dart has formed a new Financial Crimes/Public Corruption Unit, the first of its kind in the sheriff's office, to investig...

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Puppy Mill Busted On South Side, Dozens Of Puppies Crammed Into Bird Cages (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Authorities have removed up to 70 puppies from a home on Chicago's South Side, where police say some animals were stuffed into bird cages and living w...

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Jail Crowding May Be Reduced

Chicago Sun-Times | Frank Main | Posted 05.25.2011

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The elimination of video bail hearings at the courthouse at 26th and California is expected to create staffing problems for the Cook County sheriff bu...

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Cook County Sheriff Launching Local Most Wanted TV Show

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is launching a local version of "America's Most Wanted" on Comcast cable. "Police Blotter on Demand," which will be avai...

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Cook County Sheriff Resuming Evictions

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE The Cook County Sheriff's office will resume mortgage foreclosure evictions Monday, October 20th. Sheriff Dart agreed to end his brief morator...

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Cook County Sheriff Suspending Mortgage Foreclosure Evictions

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is helping to uphold state law with his eviction moratorium: People...

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