Friday, April 5, 2013
Veteran prosecutor Greg Vaci joins DuPage County State's Attorney's Office as the new Chief of the Civil Bureau.
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Friday, April 5
DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin on Friday announced veteran prosecutor Gregory Vaci has joined the State’s Attorney’s Office as the new Chief of the Civil Bureau. As Chief, Vaci will supervise 16 attorneys and support staff responsible for representing DuPage County Government and all of its elected officers in their official capacities, according to a news release from the State's Attorney's Office. Vaci joins DuPage County after serving in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office as Supervisor of the Labor and Employment Unit where he supervised 13 Assistant State’s Attorneys engaged in labor and employment related litigation in federal and state courts, according to the release. He began his career in the Cook County State…
Friday, January 11, 2013
Linda Cottrell, a former house manager at the Cupertino Home in Warrenville, is sentenced to 40 months in jail for stealing more than $8,000 from residents of the home.
A former employee of an assisted living home in Warrenville will serve 40 months in jail for stealing more than $8,000 from residents, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced Friday Judge Kathryn Creswell on Friday sentenced Linda Cottrell, the former House Manager of the Cupertino Home in Warrenville to 40 months in the Illinois Department of Corrections after she pleaded guilty on Nov. 15. Cottrell, 37, of Justice, was charged with one count of Financial Exploitation of a Person With a Disability, a Class 2 Felony. The sentencing stems from allegations that from December, 2008 through December, 2011, Cottrell took residents’ ATM cards from a safe at the home without permission. She would then withdraw funds from the …
Monday, June 25, 2012
Gordon Vanderark accused of plotting to kill judge, prosecutor and two others.
Prosecutors contend they did not violate Gordon Vanderak's rights when they had him transported from prison to DuPage County last year before charging the former Wheaton man in a murder-for-hire plot. In court records recently filed, prosecutors dispute Vanderark's attorney's claims that it was illegal to bring Vanderark to DuPage County on a writ - a judge's order - for a hearing related to an old DUI case when prosecutors and the judge knew that was not why authorities wanted Vanderak moved from Centralia Correctional Center. "The use of the writ, where the underlying desire was of a nature other than that (of) the status of the defendant's car was legitimate nontheless," according to a formal response filed last week. Vanderark, 54, is …
Friday, April 13, 2012
Former Wheaton resident Gordon Vanderark is accused of arranging to kill four people, including a judge and prosecutor.
A former Wheaton man accused of arranging to have four people killed claims investigators violated his rights when they questioned him about a murder-for-hire plot last year, court documents show. Gordon Vanderark, 54, is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2010 of aggravated drunken driving. He has multiple previous DUI convictions. In November, Vanderark was charged with solicitation of murder for hire after an investigation determined he planned with another inmate to kill the judge and assistant state’s attorney from the DUI case, as well as his ex-wife and another man. But, according to a motion filed by Vanderark’s attorney, prosecutors and investigators used “psychological and mental coercion” to …
Monday, January 9, 2012
A now 22-year-old Glen Ellyn man was sentenced to jail time after shooting two individuals following a 2009 robbery, according to the DuPage County State's Attorney.
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Monday, January 9, 2012
James Kral, 22, of Glen Ellyn was sentenced to 29 years behind bars for a 2009 home invasion in Glen Ellyn where two individuals were shot but survived their injuries. On Oct. 29, 2009, Kral and two other individuals entered a home in Glen Ellyn on Busch Road wearing masks and armed with handguns. The men bound two occupants with duct tape and forced them to sit against a couch, according to a statement from the DuPage County State's Attorney. After an altercation with another occupant, the men fled from the home and on the way out Kral shot the two against the couch, one in the face and the other in the arm. The two survived their injuries. According to DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin, Kral and his accomplices entered the …
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Kevin McCartney was charged with one count of Leaving the Scene of an Accident Involving Personal Injury or Death.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin charged Kevin McCartney of Wheaton with leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in a death. According to the prosecution, McCartney, 21, attended a party Oct. 5, 2009 with Gregory Hoctor. According to Berlin’s office, McCartney and Hoctor, 18, left the party in McCartney's vehicle. However, McCartney allegedly returned to the party alone and claimed that Hoctor stole his car. Wheaton Police found McCartney's vehicle crashed into a tree on Durfee Road in Wheaton with Hoctor still inside. Hoctor later died from injuries sustained in the accident. An investigation into the crash and McCartney's claims that Hoctor stole his vehicle yielded allegations that McCartney had been with Hoctor at …
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
New county chairman is confident his picks will serve the people well.
The Dan Cronin era of DuPage County government kicked off today with the appointment of a new state's attorney and new members to the DuPage County Water Commission. Cronin, who was elected DuPage County Board chairman in November, began his tenure with the board unanimously supporting his selections. Immediately following the confirmation of his appointment as state's attorney, Robert Berlin was sworn in as the top law enforcement official in DuPage. Berlin, who has worked as a prosecuting attorney since 1987, said he is looking forward to the challenge of leading the office he's served the past six years. "The top priorities of my office will be protecting the public and defending the rights of victims of crime," Berlin said. "The …
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Jim McMahon
9:52 pm on Monday, January 9, 2012
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