Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart will be honored tonight as one of Governing Magazine’s public officials of the year for setting a new standard on what a jail can accomplish. Sheriff Dart’s focus on rehabilitation while inmates are in custody through programming and pr... [Read More]
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart launched an awareness campaign on social media today, aiming to shed light on the devastating opioid crisis while giving the public a better understanding of its victims and tools to help those in need. The Sheriff’s Awareness Initiativeâ... [Read More]
Cook County Sheriff’s Police are looking for a man who approached students at a bus stop in unincorporated Des Plaines offering them rides, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 15 a man riding a black bicycle approached a 13-year-old b... [Read More]
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today that a 73-year-old man has been charged with predatory criminal sexual assault and child pornography after a Sheriff’s Police investigation found that he assaulted boys and in some cases took explicit images of them. The i... [Read More]
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart is seeking the termination of correctional officer Alexander Perteete due to fraudulent use of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Perteete, who was hired as a correctional officer in 2004 and has worked in multiple divisions in the Cook C... [Read More]
A 23-year-old man has been charged with a felony after Cook County Sheriff’s Police officers found him with a stolen pistol in unincorporated Melrose Park, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 2:45 p.m. on Nov. 3, Sheriff’s officers responding to anot... [Read More]
