Thursday, November 8, 2012
Federal agents and Illinois State Police were back at it again in the Shorewood forest preserve Thursday.
For a supposedly routine search, the FBI and Illinois State Police are sure investing a lot of time, effort and money. A couple dozen federal agents and state troopers spent a fourth full day in Shorewood's Hammel Woods, poking around the park for some sign of missing mom Stacy Peterson. A state police source close to the five-year-old Stacy Peterson case said on Monday the operation was just one of numerous searches conducted periodically in locations investigators believe Stacy's body may have been left. But the agents and troopers—along with high-tech equipment and cadaver dogs—returned the next day, and then came back again Wednesday and Thursday, leaving many wondering just what exactly has been happening in Hammel Woods. Cable news …
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The FBI and the Illinois State Police spent a third straight day looking for Stacy Peterson in Shorewood's Hammel Woods Wednesday.
The search for Stacy Peterson in Shorewood's Hammel Woods entered its third day as federal agents and state troopers used a dog to hunt for the missing mother. The brown and white dog led a group of a half dozen FBI agents and state troopers—some armed with shovels—through the Shorewood park. The search party headed in the direction of the Hammel Woods dog park off Black Road. A state police source said on Monday that the search effort was nothing more than a routine operation. The agency conducts such searches periodically, the source said, and there was no tip or clue that prompted this week's endeavor. But when FBI agents and troopers returned for a second day Tuesday, and then once again today, some close to the case were wondering if …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
The FBI and Illinois State Police have spent two days in Hammel Woods looking for Stacy Peterson while missing mom Linda Fellenbaum has been gone for more than two weeks.
While FBI agents and state troopers spent a second straight day scouring Hammel Woods for some sign of missing mom Stacy Peterson, there was no one to be found in a Joliet cul-de-sac just six miles away, the one where another mother was supposedly seen running off barefoot, never to be seen again. That mother, Linda Fellenbaum, 33, disappeared Oct. 21, leaving her cell phone, shoes and Toyota Camry at the home of the Joliet man she moved in with only two months before. Fellenbaum and her Joliet boyfriend, Donald Wolak, 40, had met on the Internet, police said, and their short relationship was made out to be a stormy one. Wolak told police Fellenbaum took off on him five days before disappeared for good. And when she absconded on Oct. 16, …
Despite wet conditions, state troopers and federal agents continued their search for Stacy Peterson in Shorewood's Hammel Woods.
For a second straight day, federal agents and Illinois State Police troopers combed through Hammel Woods in Shorewood, searching for a sign of missing mom Stacy Peterson. On Monday, a state police source confirmed troopers and FBI agents had launched a search for the vanished wife of disgraced former Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson. FBI spokeswoman Joan Hyde also said agents with the feds' Evidence Response Team were in the woods "working with ISP as part of an ongoing criminal investigation." Despite persistent rain, agents and troopers were back at it Tuesday. The FBI provided a large recreation vehicle. On Monday, helicopters, boats and police dogs were employed in the joint operation. It was not clear how the inclement weather would …
Monday, November 5, 2012
A helicopter, police dogs, state cops and federal agents were searching for missing mom Stacy Peterson in Hammel Woods Monday.
Federal agents and state cops searched through Hammel Woods forest preserve in Shorewood Monday looking for signs of missing mom Stacy Peterson. READ MORE: A state police source confirmed that the operation—which included at least one helicopter and police dogs—was part of the search effort for the Bolingbrook mother, who disappeared in October 2007. Weeks after Stacy vanished, state police officials named her husband, Drew Peterson, 58, as the sole suspect in the investigation the then-23-year-old's disappearance. Peterson has never been charged with harming Stacy, but was convicted in September of murdering his previous wife, Kathleen Savio. Savio, the third of Peterson's four wives, was found drowned in her dry bathtub in March 2004. …
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The Naperville Police Department arrested four women in "Operation Cross County VI," a nationwide crackdown on prostitution and trafficking organized by the FBI.
Four women were arrested and charged with prostitution at a Naperville hotel Friday after the Naperville Police Department participated in the FBI’s “Operation Cross County VI,” a nationwide crackdown on child sex trafficking. One of the four was Melissa Sue Ronczkowski, 23, of Bolingbrook, according to officials. While no children were involved in the Naperville sweep, 79 child victims of prostitution were discovered and more than 100 pimps were arrested across the country during the three-day operation, according to the FBI. “Even though our arrests didn’t net any children involved in prostitution, it was under that particular operation,” Naperville Police Department Sgt. Gregg Bell said. “In our cases, all of the individuals that were …
Monday, March 26, 2012
Jeremy Blackburn, the former president and CFO of Canopy Financial Inc., pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in a U.S. District Court in December 2010. He was found dead the day before he was scheduled to begin a 15-year prison sentence.
A Bolingbrook man who was to begin a 15-year prison sentence this month for his role in defrauding investors and clients of more than $93 million was found dead last week. Jeremy Blackburn, the former president and CFO of Canopy Financial Inc., pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in a U.S. District Court in December 2010. Lee County Sheriff John Varga said officers received a phone call March 19 to do a welfare check on Blackburn at a relative’s home at 1642 Old Mill Road in rural Franklin Grove. Blackburn was found dead in a pick-up truck in a barn on the property, Varga said. “We are still investigating but we don’t suspect any foul play,” he said. According to a release from the Department of Justice, Blackburn admitted to his …
Friday, February 17, 2012
Jeremy Blackburn will begin his sentence March 20.
A Bolingbrook man who admitted to helping defraud investors and clients of more than $93 million will begin his 15-year prison sentence next month. Jeremy Blackburn, the former president and CFO of Canopy Financial, Inc., and Bolingbrook resident, pled guilty to one count of wire fraud in a U.S. District Court in December of 2010. According to the Department of Justice, Blackburn admitted to his role in a fraud scheme that cheated investors of approximately $75 million, while at the same time misappropriating more than $18 million from customer accounts intended for health care savings and expenses. Canopy Financial, Inc., developed and marketed software programs for banks and health care payers to administer and process payments involving…
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The Shorewood Police Department assisted in the federal investigation that ended with the arrest of a Bolingbrook man on a human trafficking charge.
The Shorewood Police Department lent a hand in a federal investigation that led the to the Tuesday morning arrest of a Bolingbrook man on a human trafficking charge. McKenzie "Casino" Carson, 39, of 200 Campbell Drive—just a block away from Jamie McGee Middle School—was taken into custody at his home, according to a statement released by the FBI. The FBI accused Carson of "actively recruiting young females, including minors under the age of 18, to work for him as prostitutes in and around the Chicago area since at least 2010." "Carson advertised their services over the Internet and used cellular telephones to schedule and book 'dates' for the girls," according to the FBI statement. "Carson is believed to have employed others to assist him …
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Timothy Scannell, who, managed a three-story Tallgrass office building and warehouse, is being charged with mail fraud.
A 48-year-old Chicago man who managed an office building and warehouse in Bolingbrook is being charged with mail fraud for his part in an alleged fraudulent billing and kickback scheme, FBI officials said last week. According to an FBI release, the principal owner and six top executives of Krahl Construction and two employees of a former general contractor, together with two former employees of client companies, were indicted for causing losses of $9 million and $400,000 respectively to the two client companies, while the former employees of those firms allegedly received kickbacks. According to the indictment, the defendants fraudulently inflated the cost of renovation projects performed by Krahl and caused the creation of false documents…
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