Auburn Gresham
Month: August 2026
Citywide
Chicago cop with most complaints jailed on domestic battery charge; records show interim superintendent intervened in previous case
The Chicago cop with the most misconduct complaints among active officers is now detained in the Cook County Jail on domestic battery charges. Records show a previous suspension he received for a domestic incident was reduced from 30 days to 15 days at the behest of Fred Waller, who is serving as CPD’s Interim Superintendent.
Citywide
Irving Park
Greater Grand Crossing
Rogers Park
O'Hare
Man with 32 pounds of pot in luggage at O’Hare tells cops, ‘Kid you not, I had no idea there was that much there’
A 25-year-old Salem, Oregon, man is facing cannabis trafficking charges after federal agents allegedly found nearly 32 pounds of raw cannabis inside a suitcase he was carrying onto a London-bound flight at O’Hare International Airport. And the accused man says it’s all a big misunderstanding stemming from a job he found on Instagram.
Citywide
Roscoe Village car burglar had key fob programming device, cops say
A routine car break-in investigation in Roscoe Village is offering a glimpse into a technological shift that police believe is fueling a renewed rise in auto thefts across Chicago: the 18-year-old Calumet City man arrested in the case was allegedly carrying a car key programmer, a high-tech device commonly used by locksmiths that cops say is increasingly being turned into a tool for stealing vehicles.
Suburbs
‘They will fear me’: Notebook writings revealed as suspected Flock camera thief is freed under the SAFE-T Act
A Glendale Heights man accused of vandalizing a speed camera near an elementary school and stealing several police surveillance cameras had a notepad in his car containing writings in which he allegedly vowed to “dispatch the vermin” and declared that “this world needs someone to do the dirty work.”
Suburbs
Joliet man convicted in 2018 killing sold gun, fentanyl to undercover ATF agents: feds
A Joliet man previously convicted of killing another man in 2018 faces federal charges after the ATF said he sold a firearm and approximately 1,000 fentanyl pills to undercover agents in separate transactions. Martell “Haitian” Ollie was taken into custody in Joliet on Wednesday after he consummated the drug deal, according to a federal criminal complaint.
Bucktown
Citywide
Former Budlong Chicken owner goes to prison for spending COVID relief money on sprawling Colorado home, exotic trips
The former owner of the Budlong Hot Chicken chain and other restaurants in Chicago and Denver has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after admitting he fraudulently obtained more than $2.3 million in COVID relief funds and failed to turn over more than $430,000 in taxes withheld from his employees.
Suburbs