by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 6, 2021 | Illinois News, National News, Retail Theft, Waukesha Stories
It took 15 people eight or nine hours to unload all the recovered merchandise in the first major bust for the Illinois attorney general’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force. Law enforcement recovered millions of dollars worth of stolen goods from Chicago storage...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 6, 2021 | Illinois News
State Rep. Marty Moylan, a Democrat from Des Plaines, says there’s a “war on police officers” and is proposing two pieces of legislation, as well as a funding boost for law enforcement, he believes will help end it. According to data released by the...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Dec 6, 2021 | Illinois News
WILLOWBROOK, Ill. – Two men, who are in custody in Indiana on unrelated charges, have been charged with carjacking an elderly couple at gunpoint at a Willowbrook gas station. Kevin Sanders, 22, of West Lafayette, and Antonio Davis, 20, of Chicago, have been...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Nov 24, 2021 | Illinois News, National News, Waukesha Stories
What was supposed to be a joyous occasion in Waukesha, Wis., turned to tragedy Sunday afternoon when the driver of an SUV plowed into a crowd of people at the city’s annual Christmas parade. Less than an hour into the festivities, suspect Darrell E. Brooks...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Nov 24, 2021 | Illinois News, National News, Waukesha Stories
An 8-year-old boy became the sixth person to die Tuesday as a result of a man driving his SUV into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade, with a criminal complaint alleging that the suspect in the case steered side-to-side with the intent of striking marchers and...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Nov 24, 2021 | Illinois News, National News, Waukesha Stories
Darrell Brooks (center) makes his initial court appearance in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. (CNN) Shortly before an SUV barreled into a crowd of parade marchers and pedestrians on Sunday in Waukesha, Wisconsin, at least one officer described the driver as having...