by Mike Pierga | May 2, 2016 | Press Release
Cook County Sheriff’s Police are looking for a man wanted in connection with a reported attempted child abduction in unincorporated Des Plaines, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 9 a.m. today a man holding what appeared to be a knife called out...
by Mike Pierga | Apr 25, 2016 | Press Release
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today that Sheriff’s 9-1-1 Center dispatchers are now required to have Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training and now have access to a program that allows callers to provide additional information – including mental health...
by Mike Pierga | Apr 25, 2016 | Press Release
A Minnesota woman has been charged with multiple felonies after a large amount of drugs were found in her luggage at O’Hare International Airport, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. Cook County Sheriff’s Police were contacted by U.S Customs and Border...
by Mike Pierga | Apr 22, 2016 | Press Release
Historic expungement and sealing reform legislation drafted and supported by Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart passed the Illinois House today with bi-partisan support. HB 6328 removes two critical barriers for pursuing arrest expungements: Allows people to seek...
by Mike Pierga | Apr 20, 2016 | Press Release
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart is warning of a phone scam in which a caller claims to be a member of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. In this scam, the unknown offenders use a spoofing application to make it appear on Caller ID that the phone call is coming from...
