by Shereen Mohammad | Jan 10, 2023 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – A 34-year-old nurse has been charged with drug possession after she took possession of what she believed were illegal drugs from an undercover Sheriff’s Police officer to give an individual in custody at the jail, Cook County Jail, Sheriff Thomas J....
by Shereen Mohammad | Nov 5, 2022 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – A 33-year-old Maywood man is now facing burglary and retail theft charges after breaking and entering two commercial stores and stealing more than $6,000 worth of lottery tickets, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. On Nov. 1,...
by Shereen Mohammad | Nov 3, 2022 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – An 18-year-old man has been charged with multiple felonies after he crashed the stolen vehicle he was driving into another car and dropped his gun while fleeing the scene, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 6 p.m. on...
by Shereen Mohammad | Oct 14, 2022 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – The Cook County Jail’s men’s chess team finished 3rd in its division during the championship round of an intercontinental chess competition for detained individuals from nearly four dozen nations representing every continent except Antarctica,...
by Shereen Mohammad | Jun 13, 2022 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – A man in custody at Cook County Jail and his fiancé have been charged after an undercover Sheriff’s Office investigation found that they had sought to hire someone to kill a witness in the man’s current murder case, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced...