Saturday, May 18, 2013
The following police-related items were taken from area Patches. When an arrest is referenced is should not be considered a conviction.
Des Plaines Battery, Hazing Charges Filed Against Maine West Soccer Coach A former varsity boys soccer coach and teacher at Maine West High School faces multiple criminal charges related to reports of bullying and hazing, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez stated on Wednesday. Michael Divincenzo was charged with eight misdemeanor counts including three counts of battery, one count of hazing and four counts of failure to report abuse as mandated, in incidents on June 1, 2012, Aug. 31, 2012 and Sept. 26, 2012, according to court documents. Divincenzo is accused of threatening freshmen students to have the varsity players stick their thumbs up their buttocks if they did not communicate properly during a soccer drill, according to the …
Saturday, May 11, 2013
The following police-related items came from area Patches. When an arrest is referenced it should not be considered a conviction.
Inverness Woman Charged in Decades Old Murder Former Inverness resident Jacquelyn Greco, 66, was charged with arranging the murder of her husband in 1979. Greco, of Crystal Falls, Michigan was charged with first degree murder of her husband, Carl Gaimari. Police said Greco was having an affair and planned her husband's death. Police said that Greco had a burglary staged. On April 30, 1979, two men entered the residence and stated they were robbing the home. Police said the two men ordered Greco and the couple's three children – ages 13, 5, and 2 – into a bedroom, tied them up and locked them in a closet. Before they closed the closet door, the men took a box off of a top shelf that contained two handguns owned by Gaimari. Police said that …
Saturday, May 4, 2013
The following police-related items were taken from area Patches. When an arrest is mentioned it should not be considered a conviction.
Crystal Lake Massive Fire Destroys Home, Damages Four Others Three firefighters sustained minor injuries battling a fire on Carrington Drive near Crystal Lake. The fire started at 3:30 p.m. The fire engulfed one home and strong winds helped spread it to four nearby homes in the 3200 block of Carrington Drive. "Crews started a defensive attack on the fire and began protecting exposures," stated Jerry Larsen, fire prevention bureau chief for Crystal Lake Fire Rescue in a press release. A home at 3217 Carrington was described as a "total loss," by Larsen. No residents were injured in the incident. The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Illinois State Fire Marsals Office, McHenry County Sheriff's Office and Crystal Lake Fire …
Saturday, April 27, 2013
The following information was taken from area Patches. When an arrest is mentioned it should not be considered a conviction.
Des Plaines Man Rescued from Des Plaines River After Kayak Capsizes Des Plaines firefighters rescued a man from the Des Plaines River after the kayak he was paddling capsized on Friday, according to a report from Fire Chief Alan Wax. A witness reported the man in the river shortly after 11 a.m. on April 19, Wax stated, and he was found clinging to a tree trunk in the river. The man was not injured, Wax stated. “It was our understanding that he was previously helping folks with his boat prior to traveling toward the main river via Campground Road,” Wax stated. It was not a good idea for anyone to enter the Des Plaines River, Wax stated. “The safety lesson is that the river’s current is extremely fast and dangerous,” Wax stated. The fire …
Saturday, April 20, 2013
The following police-related information was taken from area Patches. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.
Inverness Man Killed In School Bus Crash A 50-year-old Barrington Hills Man, Steven Schmidt, was killed Thursday after the SUV he was driving collided with a District 15 school bus in Inverness. No children were on the school bus at the time of the incident. The bus was headed east on Palatine Road at about 3:50 p.m. and collided with an SUV headed west. Both drivers were taken by ambulance to an area hospital, Palatine Rural Fire Protection District officials said. Skokie Masked Gunman Robs Jimmy John's Police responded to an armed robbery at Jimmy John’s, 9402 Skokie Blvd., on April 14 around 9 p.m. According to police, a man entered the store, displayed a silver revolver and demanded cash. He would then flee the scene with about $500 in…
Saturday, April 13, 2013
The following police related items were taken from area Patches. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.
Harvard Woman Pulled From Burning Car After Crashing Into School Bus Two good Samaritans are credited with pulling a Harvard woman from her burning car early Wednesday morning after she collided with a school bus on Route 14. Deborah Furstenau, 53, was driving a 1997 Plymouth eastbound on Route 14 in unincorporated Hartland Township at about 7 a.m. April 10, when she lost control of the car, veered into the westbound lane and collided with a Durham School Bus, according to McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren. Sheriff's police were called to the 16200 block of Route 14. While enroute to the crash scene deputies learned Furstenau's car had caught fire. "...The driver had been rescued by a citizen and an off-duty McHenry County Conservation …
Saturday, April 6, 2013
The following police related items came from area Patches. An arrest should not be considered a conviction.
Wadsworth One Killed in School Bus Crash A rollover crash involving a school bus and two vehicles at Route 173 and Kilbourne Road in Newport Township at about 8 a.m. Friday morning has left one person dead. CLTV has several videos on its website. The bus was loaded with about three dozen kindergarten through fifth-grade students headed to Newport Elementary School, none of whom have serious injuries, reported the Chicago Tribune. Twenty-three students were taken by another school bus to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, while 13 other children were transported to area hospitals with minor injuries, reported WGN News. The driver of one of the vehicles involved, a Jeep Wrangler, was pronounced dead at the scene with a second …
Saturday, March 30, 2013
The following police-related items came from area Patches. An arrest should not be considered a conviction.
Arlington Heights Man Charged in Cat Murders A 22-year-old Arlington Heights man is accused of killing three of his girlfriend's cats between June and February while he was watching them for her, according to the Chicago Tribune. A $125,000 bond has been set for John Talmo, of the 200 block of Derbyshire Avenue, who was charged Thursday with aggravated animal cruelty in the Rolling Meadows branch of Cook County Circuit Court, according to the Tribune. He is accused of strangling to death one of the girlfriend's cat, Princess, last summer, beating to death another cat, Abigail, in October, and beating and strangling a third cat, Piper, this past February, according to WGNTV.com. Palatine Police: Man Breaks Leg of Mentally Handicapped …
Saturday, March 23, 2013
The following is a selection of police related items from area Patches. An arrest is not a conviction.
Palatine Three Killed in Crash A grandma, her daughter and 2-year-old grandson—all of Palatine—died Thursday in a two-vehicle crash outside of Sycamore in DeKalb County, according to media reports. Police told the Daily Chronicle the accident occurred when the daughter, and driver of the Mitsubishi Galant, Jenny Perez, 19, of Palatine crossed the centerline on Peace Road near Freed Road and collided with a large farming truck. Her mother, Angelina Felix, 57, and her son, Roberto M. Perez, 2, were in the vehicle and also died in the crash, which occurred around 11:20 a.m. Thursday, according to the Daily Chronicle. Reid Robert Anderson, 27, of Sycamore, was the driver of the truck and was not injured in the crash, according to the Chicago…
Saturday, March 2, 2013
The following is a selection of police items that have appeared on area Patches. When an arrest is referenced it does not indicate a conviction.
Crystal Lake Man Who Killed Family in DUI Crash Gets Another DUI A 61-year-old Mount Prospect man convicted of driving drunk and killing four Crystal Lake family members in 1999 now faces upgraded charges for allegations that he drove drunk this past Sunday, McHenry County prosecutors told the Daily Herald. Depner wandered into a Lakemoor resident's home on Sunday, Feb. 24 after driving his car into a ditch. Depner is out on parole after serving 12 years of a 14-year sentence for the DUI-related crash that took the lives of a Crystal Lake woman and her three children in 1999, according to the Northwest Herald. The Burleson family, of Crystal Lake, was on their way home from a day at Great America when Depner crashed into their mini-van …
Stu Pidasso
1:06 pm on Saturday, May 18, 2013
This guy will not spend a day in jail!! waste of taxpayers money... Think about it... first time offender, misdemeanors, will get probation, if that... while the taxpayers are stuck footing the bill for this dog and pony show.. Our society is in a sad state of affairs.. more ›