Author: Paul Stukel

State’s Attorney Jamie L. Mosser has completed her review of the March 30, 2025, officer-involved death of Irving Martinez, age 30, of Aurora, finding no wrongdoing on the part of the Aurora police officers involved in the incident. According to the investigation, on March 30 APD officers responded to the Speedway Gas Station located at 948 North Farnsworth Avenue in Aurora, where they found Martinez in the bathroom, screaming and acting erratically. The toilet had been detached from the wall, flooding the floor with water. Martinez gave the officers his name and said he had taken cocaine that was “probably…

A Batavia man is in custody after allegedly killing his wife in at their apartment early Tuesday morning. According to police, on Tuesday at approximately 4:37am the Batavia Police Department was contacted by a man who claimed that he had just killed his wife. Officers were dispatched to an apartment building in the 100 block of Church Street where they located the man just outside of the apartment. He was taken into custody without incident. When officers entered the apartment, they located a female victim with significant, life-threatening injuries. First responders attempted to render aid to the victim, but she…

A pilot and his passenger were killed Wednesday afternoon when their twin-engine Piper PA 30 crashed just after take-off from DuPage Airport in West Chicago. According to a statement from DuPage Airport, the accident occurred just before 2:00pm Wednesday. West Chicago Fire Department and Police Department personnel responded immediately to the incident, and airport was temporarily closed as emergency operations continue. The exact cause of the accident is under investigation. DuPage Airport officials are coordinating with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board, which will lead the investigation to determine the cause of the accident. Authorities have…

A 55-year-old live-in caretaker faces 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to torturing and starving a young child over a period of three years commencing in 2021. The child’s mother, a single parent, is awaiting trial for the same offense.  Today, Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie L. Mosser announced that Eulalia Vences of Elgin has agreed to a sentence of 20 years of imprisonment for a guilty plea to the offense of Aggravated Battery – Great Bodily Harm, a Class X felony. Judge Julia Yetter accepted the plea. …at age 7, [the child] was brought to the emergency room of Saint…

A 33-year-old doctor who was formerly employed at Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin has been charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old minor with an intellectual disability in the poolside bathroom of an Elgin hotel. Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie L. Mosser and Elgin Chief of Police Ana Lally announced today that the suspect, who lives in Chicago, has been charged with Aggravated criminal sexual assault, a class X felony; Criminal sexual assault, a class 1 felony; Unlawful restraint, a class 4 felony; Aggravated criminal sexual abuse, a class 2 felony (4 counts); and Sexual exploitation of a child, a class A misdemeanor…

Firefighters successfully extricated the driver of a vehicle that had slid off a driveway, overturned and settled upside down in a creek in Elgin Thursday morning. At approximately 9:09am on Thursday, the Pingree Grove & Countryside Fire Protection District responded to the 9N600 block of Kendall Road after a report of a vehicle leaving a driveway and overturning into a creek. Upon arrival, fire personnel found a vehicle upside down and partially submerged in water. One occupant was trapped inside. Firefighters quickly began a rescue and extracted the person within 10 minutes. The victim had minor injuries and showed signs…

A 23-year-old Aurora man has been sentenced to the 38 years in prison for brutally stabbing his mother to death in 2022. Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie L. Mosser announced yesterday that Abel Quinones-Herstad has agreed to a sentence of 38 years of imprisonment in exchange for a guilty plea to the offense of first-degree murder, a class M felony. Judge Barsanti accepted the plea. According to prosecutors, on July 14, 2022, Quinones-Herstad stabbed Edith Gonzalez-Alarcon 26 times with a knife, causing her death. He then traveled to the Wisconsin residence of his brother, where he stated that he had done something…

A 44-year-old United States Customs and Border Protection officer from Pingree Grove has been indicted in US District Court on allegations that in 2022 he sexually assaulted and robbed multiple women in Schaumburg and Naperville. The indictment, which was unsealed Tuesday in US District Court in Chicago, charges the suspect with ten counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. The suspect performed both customs and immigration duties for CBP in the Chicago area. As a CBP officer, the suspect had the authority to carry a…

A 49-year-old man who was pumping gas at an Aurora gas station in the early hours of Monday morning was shot multiple times by an unknown gunman who immediately fled the scene. At approximately 3:44am, Aurora Police officers responded to a report of a gunshot victim at the Mobil gas station located at 300 South Broadway, where they found the victim suffering from multiple upper-body gunshot wounds. Aurora Fire Department paramedics transported the victim to a local hospital for treatment of injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening. No other injuries were reported, and the victim remains in stable…

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