According to Lake County prosecutors, DUI charges were dropped against Joseph Cardinale, 43, of Chicago, who was involved in a fatal crash in Long Grove this past September. Cardinale’s SUV collided with a motorcycle driven by Anthony Brust, 21. Brust did not survive the blunt force trauma he sustained to…
Marquis Harris, 18, pled guilty to first-degree murder in the DUI-related death of Marciea Adkins. Harris was sentenced on Friday to 25 years in prison for killing Adkins, 42, a Chicago police dispatcher. According to police, Harrison left a party around 6 a.m. on July 10, 2011 when he reportedly…
Matthew Dyer, 20, of Frankfort, was tased by a Tinley Park Police officer after a DUI arrest where he reportedly attempted to get out of his handcuffs and kick the arresting officers. On September 26, Dyer’s vehicle ran off the road and hit a light pole at the Harlem Avenue…
Anthony Cechini, 23, of Round Lake is charged with felony DUI in a fatal Fox Lake crash. At approximately 4 p.m. on Saturday, Cechini was allegedly driving in a Subaru when it left the road and hit a tree. David Letchinger, Jr., 21, of McHenry, the front passenger, was ejected…
Luis Romo, 18, was charged with driving under the influence after a crash that took place early Sunday morning in Elgin. According to police, Romo ran a stop sign and hit a SUV carrying three men around 1 a.m. Romo’s pickup truck reportedly pushed the SUV into a parked car.…
Pavlo Lulak, 24, of Chicago is charged with aggravated driving under the influence after a passenger in his vehicle died when he allegedly lost control and crashed on the Kennedy Expressway this past weekend. Police claim Lulak’s BAC was almost three times the legal limit of .08. His passenger, Maryana…
Heidi Roseen, 51, of Lockport was the victim of a fatal crash early Sunday morning with a suspected drunk driver. Roseen, a nurse at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, was on her way to work when her vehcile was struck by a pick up truck. The driver, 25-year-old…
Andy Darrell Taylor, 28, of Chicago, was charged with DUI after allegedly sideswiping a party bus on the Eisenhower Expressway. Around 2:30AM, the SUV hit the left side of the bus and rolled over, injuring four people in that vehicle and fifteen on the party bus. Luckily, most of the…
Gustavo Pichardo, 20, of Chicago was charged with four felony counts of aggravated DUI resulting in death on Monday after a fatal crash that killed four passengers. According to court recrords, at approximately 1 a.m. on Saturday, Pirchardo disobeyed a red light at an intersection on the Southwest Side. A…
Grayslake police chief, Matt McCutcheon, was charged with DUI in Wisconsin. The charges came about after his involvement in a car accident while returning from a restaurant just over the state line with his wife. McCutcheon was turning onto Route 46 in Silver Lake when he allegedly struck a car…