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Subject Arrested in Connection with Fatal Orland Park Traffic Crash The Orland Park Police Department Thursday, June 5, 2025, announced the arrest of Robert Barajar of Tinley Park in connection with the fatal collision that occurred in the early morning hours of May 31, 2025, at 15900 S. Harlem Avenue, Orland Park. At approximately 3:13…
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Investigation leads to aggravated vehicular hijacking arrest A Country Club Hills man on Tuesday (March 4, 2025) was charged with felony aggravated vehicular hijacking stemming from an incident that occurred in September in Tinley Park. Police said Jamal Britton, 33, approached a 27-year-old man as he was leaving work Sept. 11 in the 18700 block…
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Suspect arrested in connection with aggravated vehicular hijacking, carjacking, in Orland Park On June 6, 2024, the Orland Park Police Department responded to a call of an aggravated vehicular hijacking at the Mercedes-Benz of Orland located at 8430 W. 159th St. The victim, a vehicle transporter, was preparing to load a black 2021 Mercedes-Benz onto…
Drug investigation leads to multiple Felony charges in drug sales at Sandburg High school In the fall of 2023, the Orland Park Police Department received information that there was a subject on snapchat selling cannabis, psilocybin mushrooms and vape pens to Sandburg students. The Orland Park Police Tactical Response Unit opened up an investigation and…
Subject Arrested for Vehicular Hijacking in Orland Park The Orland Park Police Department announced the arrest of a suspect in a vehicular hijacking that occurred on the evening of April 3, 2024. Shawn Flores, a 44-year-old Midlothian resident, faces charges following his apprehension on April 4. The incident began when a male victim was forcibly…
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Chicago men charged after armed robbery attempt at Tinley Park Jewel/Osco Two Chicago men were charged Wednesday with attempted armed robbery after trying to rob a 72-year-old woman at gunpoint shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5 at Jewel, 17117 S. Harlem Ave., Tinley Park. Police said Jarrell Shaw, 32, of the 8000 block of…
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Des Plaines Man Charged with Gun Felonies A 29-year-old man has been charged with reckless discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after he allegedly fired a handgun into the air multiple times in unincorporated Des Plaines, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced Wednesday July 26, 2023. At approximately 10:29…
Orland Park Police arrest armed felon charged with weapons possession and violence On July 21 at approximately 3:15 p.m., Orland Park Police Officers on patrol of the parking lot at 288 Orland Square Drive in the Orland Park Mall located an unoccupied vehicle displaying a paper, Temporary Dealer Permit. Upon inspection of the vehicle’s identification…
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Flight Attendant Charged with Possession of Child Pornography A 39-year-old flight attendant, Adam Schall, has been charged with possession of child pornography for allegedly sending and receiving sexually explicit images and videos of children under the age of 13 on his cellphone, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. The Cook County Sheriff’s Police…
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DuPage-Kane Task Force Yields Drug Arrest, Seizure of Cocaine and Fentanyl A Melrose Park man is the first to be charged in a joint task force operation between the Kane and DuPage County sheriff’s offices. DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser announced Saturday. Berlin and Mosser said that…
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Man who broke into Oak Brook home on Thanksgiving arrested Bond Set at $750,000 for Cook County Man Armed with a Gun Charged With Attempting to Break into Oak Brook Home on Thanksgiving DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Oak Brook Chief of Police James Kruger announced today that bond has been set for…
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Police charge Tinley Park man with felony unlawful possession Brad Ryan, 23, 16714 Hillside Place, Tinley Park, was charged Thursday with unlawful possession with intent to deliver more than 5,000 grams (a Class X felony) after Tinley Park police found a large quantity of drugs inside his home while executing a search warrant. Tinley Park…
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Media and critics distort Trump’s role in DC protests Removing Trump right now would light a fuse and endanger the Union, supporters like Rick Manning argue. Read actual remarks President Trump gave to the DC Protestors that are being distorted and twisted for political purposes by the biased mainstream news media before Twitter censored the President…
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Maywood man charged with aggravated battery to a child after incident May 23 at Super Target in Tinley Park A 31-year-old Maywood man was charged with aggravated battery to a child, endangering the life or health of a child, domestic battery, criminal damage to property and two counts of fleeing and eluding police after an…