by Mike Pierga | Dec 23, 2015 | Press Release
In March 2015, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced a campaign to take on the system that actively facilitates the unjust incarceration of the mentally ill and poor in Cook County. He implored the public and criminal justice stakeholders to imagine the reality...
by Mike Pierga | Dec 23, 2015 | Press Release
A Cook County Sheriff’s Police investigation has led to the arrest of two men in the murder of a man found shot to death on the western edge of the Kickapoo Meadows, a Cook County Forest Preserve near Harvey, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. At approximately 2...
by Mike Pierga | Dec 14, 2015 | Press Release
An off-duty Cook County Sheriff’s correctional officer came to the aid of an injured pedestrian in Skokie last week. At approximately 5:35 p.m. on Dec. 9, Officer Wade Wicker, who works in DOC, was alerted to a pedestrian who had been struck by a vehicle in the 5400...
by Mike Pierga | Dec 11, 2015 | Press Release
A 20-year-old man has been arrested for an armed robbery in Ford Heights, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. According to the Sheriff’s Police investigation on Dec. 5, a man approached the 22-year-old victim as he exited his vehicle in the 1500 block...
by Mike Pierga | Dec 9, 2015 | Press Release, Uncategorized
313 high school students representing 55 towns will receive the Cook County Sheriff’s Youth Service Medal of Honor tonight as recognition for volunteering more than 100 hours to their community and others in the last year, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said today. The...
