Will County state’s attorney’s office

A Joliet man was sentenced to 118 years in prison Monday for sexually assaulting a teenage girl at their shared southwest suburban home in 2015. Chandel Dirkans, 37, was found guilty in August on 17 total counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual assault, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated domestic battery, the Will County state’s attorney’s office said.

A twice-convicted murderer was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole after being convicted in the 2014 killing of an elderly man in south suburban Crete Township.

The Will County state’s attorney’s office announced Tuesday that a Joliet police detective was justified in fatally shooting a bank robbery suspect who allegedly charged at with him with a knife.

Disturbing hazing allegations during a football camp at a south suburban high school have now led to a federal lawsuit. The victim’s family says the school district hasn’t done enough to discipline employees and prevent this from happening to someone else.

Disturbing hazing allegations are being levied against a suburban school, and they have led to a federal lawsuit. NBC 5’s Chris Hush has all the latest. 

A man from south suburban Tinley Park was found guilty of a first-degree murder charge Thursday for beating his wife to death with a weight-lifting bar six years ago.

A former coach at a southwest suburban Channahon gymnastics facility has been charged with sexually abusing a student.

A man from Joliet was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for attempting to murder his wife in the presence of his children three years ago in the southwestern suburb.

A Joliet man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting his young son’s teenage babysitter while she was sleeping at his home.

Charges have been filed against a man who allegedly shot two other men early Friday at a southwest suburban Joliet bar, killing one of them and critically wounding the other.

Charges have been filed against a man who allegedly shot two other men early Friday at a southwest suburban Joliet bar, killing one of them and critically wounding the other.

Customers leap into action during a deadly bar shooting in Joliet, and now police are searching for a motive behind the killing. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the latest. 

A raid in the southwest suburbs Tuesday netted 200 grams of cocaine, 31 guns—including what appears to be WW2-era machine gun—and the arrests of 16 people, many of whom are suspected gang members, the Will County state’s attorney’s office said.

Three people have been charged with murder for an arson fire last month that killed two women and an 11-month-old girl in southwest suburban Joliet.

Two women and an infant were found dead inside of a Joliet home on Saturday morning after firefighters battled a blaze. There is still no word on what caused the fire, and investigators are still looking into the cause.

A parolee was fatally shot inside a southwest suburban home Friday night while celebrating his release from prison earlier that day.