Fraud suit targets Oak Forest business (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:02:34 GMT
Cook County States Attorney Anita Alvarez has filed a lawsuitagainst an Oak Forest business and its owner for violating theIllinois Consumer Fraud Act and the Illinois Home Repair andRemodeling Act, after the company failed to complete home repairsand remodeling projects on homes in the south suburbs.
Man Charged With Running Job Scam In Hillside (CBS 2 Chicago)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:18:42 GMT
A man is charged with scamming would-be job applicants by claiming he had jobs available and charging a fee to everyone he interviewed.
Man accused in Illinois arson deaths was owner of foreclosed, condemned La Crosse apartments (La Crosse Tribune)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:08:20 GMT
Lawrence Myers was in financial trouble. His rental property onLa Crosse's South Side had been condemned, and he'd fallen behindon the mortgage.
Greed prompted fire, killed 7 (Straits Times)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:31:16 GMT
MAYWOOD (Illinois) - THE owner of a suburban Chicago apartment house had his maintenance man set fire to the building, killing seven people including a newborn, because he wanted to cash in on a US$250,000 (S$349,662) insurance policy, prosecutors said Friday. The landlord told police he wanted the house burned when the children living there were at school. Instead, authorities allege, the ...
Prosecutor: Fatal fire motivated by greed (KVOA Tucson)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:59:44 GMT
MAYWOOD, Illinois (AP) - Prosecutors say the owner of an apartment building in a Chicago suburb had his maintenance man set it on fire, killing seven people, because he wanted to collect the insurance money.
Shock at charges against landlord in fatal fire (Chicago Tribune)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:19:16 GMT
Those who lost relatives in a Cicero apartment building fire were stunned to hear that their landlord, along with the man who collected their rent, are accused of starting the blaze last month. "I couldn't believe it when they told me," said Allison Gist, who lived in the building and lost three children and two grandchildren in the Valentine's Day fire. A neighbor walks past the burned-out home ...
Darien murder suspect expected back in Illinois soon (Daily Herald)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:29:14 GMT
A man identified as a "prime suspect" in the triple slaying of a Darien family waived his right to an extradition in court this morning.
Lemont man arrested as triple-slaying suspect (SouthtownStar)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:02:00 GMT
Update: The prime suspect in the slayings of three people in Darien has given a full confession, NBC5 is reporting, citing sources.Jacob Nodarse, 23, was arrested in Florida on Wednesday. He appeared in bond court in Florida this morning, and waived extradition back to Illinois, NBC5 reported.Nodarse was arrested Wednesday outside his parents' house in south Florida, authorities said. He was ...
Despite health concerns, mob figure not released (Chicago Sun-Times)
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:00:59 GMT
The new alleged king of video gambling for the Chicago mob told a federal judge Tuesday that his "whole nervous system's shot" -- but it wasn't because the feds had just arrested him.Casey Szaflarski told the judge at his initial court hearing that he had just had spinal cord surgery."I take a lot of medicine, your honor," Szaflarski said. "My whole nervous system's shot."Despite his medical ...
Suspect sought in Florida in Darien killings (Chicago Sun-Times)
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:01:06 GMT
A day after a Darien couple and their youngest son were killed in the middle of the night in their own home, police in the west suburb are looking for a 23-year-old man described as a suspect in the killings.Authorities in Florida say they've been told to be on the lookout for the Chicago-area man, thought to be driving a 1994 BMW with Illinois license plates.The man was said to have relatives ...