A bill seeking to enact harsher penalties on detainees who expose themselves and conduct lewd behavior while in custody was unanimously passed out of the Criminal Law Committee in the Illinois Senate on Tuesday night. Senate Bill 3104, proposed by Cook County Sheriff Thomas ... [Read More]
A woman is alive after a Cook County Sheriff’s Police officer equipped with naloxone used the opioid overdose antidote to revive her, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 8:05 a.m. on Monday, the officer responded to a call of suspicious circumstances a... [Read More]
A Cook County Jail inmate has been sentenced to 15 years for solicitation of murder in which he sought someone to kill witnesses in his case, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Ivan Flores, 22, was originally booked into the jail on March 17, 2016 on an aggravated crimi... [Read More]
A Cook County Jail detainee has been indicted after a Sheriff’s Office investigation identified him as the second person involved in a January incident where marijuana was left at an inmate-only bathroom at Stroger hospital, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. On Jan. ... [Read More]
