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DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Lombard Chief of Police Roy Newton announced today that a Lombard woman is facing Attempt Terrorism and Possession of Incendiary Device charges for allegedly assisting a Lombard man who allegedly approached numerous city-owned squad cars armed with a Molotov cocktail, lighters, butane torches and a bat.
Read MoreDuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced today that following a lengthy sentencing hearing a Naperville man has been sentenced to seven years in the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) for striking seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Dunlap with his car and killing her in February, 2019.
Read MoreDuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Elmhurst Chief of Police Michael Ruth announced today that a twenty-two-year-old man has been charged with Attempt First Degree Murder for allegedly shooting an Elmhurst man last May. Charged with one count of Attempt First Degree Murder and one count of Aggravated Battery – Discharge of a Firearm (both Class X Felonies) is Alec Gonzales, 22 (d.o.b. 10/27/1997) with residences at 679 S. Berkley Avenue, Elmhurst and 8534 E Grandview Street, Mesa, Arizona. Gonzales is currently in custody in the Maricopa County, Arizona, Jail. Extradition proceedings are pending and he is expected to return to DuPage County in the near future.
Read MoreDuPage County State's Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced today that Judge Brian Telander has sentenced Dominic Sanders, 33 (d.o.b. 2/2/1987) formerly of University Park, to natural life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2017 murder of Andrea Urban of Hinsdale. Additionally, Judge Telander sentenced Sanders to thirty years on Home Invasion Charges and Fifteen years on Residential Burglary Charges. All three sentences will be served consecutively.
Read MoreDuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced today that a Bartlett man has been sentenced to two years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for punching and kicking a Jewel grocery store bagger last summer.
Read MoreDuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Lombard Chief of Police Roy Newton announced today that a Lombard man has been charged with one count of Possession of an Incendiary Device and one count of Attempt Terrorism, (both charges are a Class 1 Felony) for allegedly approaching numerous city-owned squad cars armed with a Molotov cocktail, lighters and a bat.
Read MoreDuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced today that the Second District Appellate Court of Illinois has affirmed the one-hundred-year sentence imposed by Judge Robert Miller upon Roberto Noyola-Espinal for forcing his way into a Lisle woman’s home and sexually assaulting her in 1999.
Read MoreDuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Addison Director of Police Bill Hayden announced today that bond has been denied for one of two men accused of hijacking at gunpoint a Chevy Camaro from a man late Monday night and robbing an Addison gas station at gunpoint on March 29, 2020. James T. Kimbrough, 22 (d.o.b. 9/19/1997) of 714 E. 147th Street, Dolton, appeared in Bond Court this morning where Judge Jeffrey MacKay denied bond. The second defendant, Malik Pierre-Louis, 23 (d.o.b. 8/10/1996) of 991 East Lake Street, Addison, is scheduled to appear in Bond Court tomorrow morning. Both men have been charged with one count of Aggravated Vehicular Hijacking with a Firearm (Class X Felony) and one count of Armed Robbery (Class X Felony).
Read MoreDuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Naperville Chief of Police Robert Marshall announced today that bond has been set for two Hoffman Estates residents accused of starving two dogs to death.
Read MoreDuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Downers Grove Chief of Police Shanon Gillette announced today that a former school security guard, Gonzalo Cesar Navejar, 39 (d.o.b. 1/16/1981) of 16A Kingery Quarter, Willowbrook has been charged with having inappropriate sexual-based communications with an underage female Downers Grove South High School student.
Read MoreDuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Lombard Chief of Police Roy Newton announced today that bond has been set for two Cook County men accused of hijacking at gunpoint a Cadillac SUV from a man while he was in line at a Lombard McDonald’s drive through.
Read MoreJerry Thomas Jr., 18 of Chicago, was released on bond after allegedly committing a criminal trespass to a vehicle in Cook County. While free on that bond, Thomas traveled to DuPage County and committed a violent armed robbery of a gas station in Roselle.
Read MorePlease read the attached press release from DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin, featuring DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, regarding law enforcement efforts and State’s Attorney operations during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreOn March 17 the Illinois Chiefs of Police Association named DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin as their “Public Official of the Year” for 2019. Bob was honored at a ceremony in Oak Brook by a group of area Chiefs of Police including DuPage Sheriff James Mendrick.
Read More“For reasons still unclear, Mr. Mirabella violently attacked an innocent man at work,” Berlin said. “Mr. Mirabella’s appalling behavior is magnified when considering the fact that the victim in this case is a special needs individual who, while working as a bagger at Jewel, posed no threat to the defendant.”
Read MoreOn February 27, 2020, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced that a jury has found Juan M. Granados, 42 (d.o.b. 01/03/1978) formerly of Glen Ellyn, guilty of killing his ex-wife, Nancy Bustos in the fall of 2011. In addition to the finding of guilty of First-Degree Murder, the jury also found Granados guilty of Criminal Sexual Assault.
Read MoreAs violent criminals seek to harm the public, DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin recently announced major criminal prosecutions related to an attempted armed vehicular hijacking and an armed robbery. Also, prison sentences were recently handed out regarding an aggravated vehicular hijacking from 2017, where the offenders were armed with a handgun.
Read MoreTwo men who robbed the Verizon Wireless store in Lisle with a firearm were charged with multiple felonies and denied bond in DuPage County court. “It is alleged that these two men armed themselves, disguised their identity and threatened at gunpoint a store employee just trying to make an honest living,” DuPage County State's Attorney Bob Berlin said.
Read MoreDuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin recently announced that the offender in a vehicular hijacking case from 2018 plead guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison as a result of the plea.
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