Buffalo Grove bank robbed

BUFFALO GROVE — A bundled-up bandit robbed a Chase Bank office in Buffalo Grove on Thursday. The FBI said the robber, described as a white man in his 30s, 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-9, had his head covered by a winter knit hat and his face covered …

1 held in Buffalo Grove, Oak Brook bank robberies

A Lombard man is charged with robbing a Des Plaines bank and is suspected of robbing banks in Buffalo Grove and Oak Brook.

Crime Commission offers reward for heroin arrests

The Illinois State Crime Commission and the Police Athletic League of Illinois plan to air television ads highlighting $1,000 rewards for turning in drug dealers who supply heroin to adolescents.

Lake Forest chiropractor gets prison for health care fraud

A Lake Forest chiropractor was sentenced to more than six years in prison Monday for defrauding an insurance company out of millions of dollars by ordering unnecessary tests and visits.

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Buffalo Grove Police Department. Readers are reminded that an arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt. Only a court of law can make that determination. Buffalo Grove DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE David Joseph …

Woman testifies ex-boyfriend beat her mother to death

Kristina Aksman said she saw her boyfriend, Daniel Baker, break into her Vernon Hills house, then pummel her panicked mother with a baseball bat. “He hit her on the knee and then on the face,” the 22-year-old Aksman said haltingly. “Then she fell on the …

Alleged killer of girlfriend’s mother found mentally fit to stand trial

Daniel Baker’s attorneys lost a last-ditch effort Monday to have the Deerfield man found mentally unfit to stand trial for the 2010 beating death of his girlfriend’s mother.

Police Blotter for Aug. 13

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Buffalo Grove police department. Readers are reminded that an arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt. Only a court of law can make that determination. BURGLARY A thief entered an unlocked car Aug. …

Police Blotter

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Buffalo Grove police department. Readers are reminded that an arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt. Only a court of law can make that determination. BATTERY Esteban Plata, 39, of the 900 block …

Police Blotter

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Buffalo Grove police department. Readers are reminded that an arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt. Only a court of law can make that determination. BURGLARY Someone stole a purse July 24 from …